Coronary care patients' and nurses' perceptions of important nurse caring behaviors.
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship of patient-perceived and nurse-perceived caring behaviors. DESIGN: Descriptive. SETTING: Three not-for-profit hospitals in a large metropolitan western city. SUBJECTS: Thirty coronary care patients and 30 coronary care nurses. METHOD: Larson's nurse caring behaviors (CARE-Q) were rank ordered by the Q-sort method. RESULTS: The patient's study group perceived behaviors that involved technology as most important, which differed from nurses, who perceived listening as the most important caring behavior. CONCLUSIONS: This study supports the findings of other researchers that patients' and nurses' perceptions of important nurse caring behaviors are divergent.