Attitude of Nurses with Patients

1.The existing literature supports a link between nurses attitudes and the care they provide their
patients

Reference:

McKinlay A, Couston M, Cowan S. Nurses behavioural intentions towards self-poisoning patients: a

theory of reasoned action, comparison of attitudes and subjective norms as predictive variables. Journal
of Advanced Nursing. 2001;34(1):107116.

2.Indeed, this cornerstones of patient care can affect not only the amount but also the quality of
care that nurses provide

Reference:

Scottish Executive. Tech. Rep. NHS HDL 41. Edinburgh, UK: Scottish Executive; 2002. Managing incidental
drug misuse and alcohol problems in mental health care settings page 07.

3.The attitudes, beliefs, and opinions, present in the hospital environment, are complex. They include
not only the attitudes of society. but also stereotypes of the patients as difficult and unrewarding, as
well as nurses' own personal or professional experience and their judgements of how deserving these
patients are of their care. These beliefs can all shape and influence the relationship that forms
between a nurse and his or her patient

Reference:

Skinner N, Feather NT, Freeman T, Roche A. Stigma and discrimination in health-care provision to drug
users: the role of values, affect, and deservingness judgments. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
2007;37(1):163186

4.nurses have an important role in caring for this group of patients. This part of nursing care is difficult
and may be an emotionally painful, distressing, and sometimes threatening

Reference:
The issue of death and dying: employing problem-based learning in nursing education.
Mok E, Lee WM, Wong FK
Nurse Educ Today. 2002 May; 22(4):319-29.
5.Nurses attitude toward the end-of-life care is thus an important factor in the behavior of nurses
who are responsible for caring for terminally ill patients

Reference:
Nurses' attitudes toward palliative care in south-east Iran.
Razban F, Iranmanesh S, Rafiei H
Int J Palliat Nurs. 2013 Aug; 19(8):403-10.