This study was prompted by concern for the method of promoting continuity of care for persons discharged from hospital. Descriptive in design, the purpose of the study was to examine selected factors affecting the communication process employed between general staff nurses in hospitals: and personnel in community agencies with regard to the referral of patients with a long-term illness from the hospital to the community setting.
The data were gathered by means of a self-administered questionnaire, designed to seek information related to each of the study's three hypotheses. It was completed by fifty-seven general staff nurses on selected nursing units of eight general hospitals in and near Vancouver, British Columbia. The units were chosen on the basis of the average
number of patients with a long-term illness usually present on the unit.
From analysis of the data the following conclusions were drawn. Although general staff nurses who participated in this study could recognize needs in patients which indicate the necessity for referral to community resources, they did not appear to have an adequate knowledge of available
community agencies. When these nurses made referrals, the lines of communication used were frequently indirect. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Nursing, School of / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/34474 |
| Date | January 1970 |
| Creators | Taylor, Elizabeth Ann |
| Publisher | University of British Columbia |
| Source Sets | University of British Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis/Dissertation |
| Rights | For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use. |
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