The purpose of the study was to explore and describe the lived experiences of general
nurses working at Standerton hospital medical wards which also admit psychiatric
patients. A qualitative, descriptive phenomenological approach was used for the study.
The study population consisted of seven general nurses working in medical wards at
Standerton hospital. Purposive sampling was used to select participants who met the
inclusion criteria. Researcher used in-depth face to face interviews to collect data until
data saturation was achieved. Tesch’s method of qualitative data analysis was utilised to
identify themes. Three themes and five sub-themes emerged from the study: theme1:
perceived danger due to aggression sub-themes stress for medical patients, stress for
medical patients’ families and stress for nurses. Theme 2: lack of skills in dealing with
psychiatric patients’ sub- theme use of restrains. Theme 3: self fulfilling prophecy subtheme
reported incidences. The study findings demonstrate the plight of general nurses
who are not trained to work with psychiatric patients but continue to do so. Findings
further accentuate what is already known about the labelling that goes with psychiatric
patients and aggression as a resultant effect. Recommendations were made for future
research, policy makers, nursing education and practice. / M.A. (Health Studies)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:unisa/oai:umkn-dsp01.int.unisa.ac.za:10500/14610 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Gule, Nozipho Felicity |
| Contributors | Thupayagale-Tshweneagae, Gloria |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Dissertation |
| Format | 1 online resource (viii, 61 leaves) |
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