Physical Touch in a Changing World: Guidance for the Mental Health Nurse

Cleary, Michelle; Hungerford, Catherine

doi:10.1080/01612840.2020.1764679

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“…While expressive touch has been identified as a basic human need with extreme importance to the human experience, expressive touch has also been identified as the most misunderstood form of touch. 3 , 14 Though reviews of literature involving the patient perception of touch do exist, no reviews nurse perceptions of expressive touch were found. 16 Since the review by Singh et al, no further evidence of nurse perceptions of expressive touch are found within the literature.…”

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“…Since Watson’s binary definition of touch in nursing, there have been surprisingly few attempts to clearly differentiate types of touch used by nurses during patient care. 8 Current literature focusing on touch often provides no definition, and the use of terms and meanings across the literature has been inconsistent, 3 adding to the ambiguity of the term. In this review of literature, only ten articles discussed types of touch, which offers very little conceptual consensus.…”

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The Nurses’ Perception of Expressive Touch: An Integrative Review

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Introduction: Nurses use physical touch to interact with patients and address their needs. Human touch benefits social development, stress/anxiety reduction, and rapport building. Touch has been a part of nursing care for centuries, however nurses’ perceptions of expressive touch are not easily ascertained from the literature. Literature currently offers one review on the perceptions of various medical professionals regarding touch of all kinds. No reviews specific to the nurses’ perception of expressive touch exist. This integrative review provides a greater understanding of nurses’ perceptions of expressive touch. Methods: Using Cooper’s steps for integrative review, CINAHL, Medline, Academic Search Premier, and Complimentary Index were searched from 2000-2022; using search term expressive touch or caring touch or compassionate touch and nurse/nurses/nursing and perception or perspective. Results: Of 283 articles identified, 22 articles remained for full-text review after duplicate removal and application of inclusion/exclusion criteria. Five topics on nurses’ perceptions of expressive touch were identified: Comfort with touch and job satisfaction, expressive touch as an essential part of nursing practice, expressive touch as a form of compassion and/or communication, the impact of expressive touch on the humanization of patients in the nurses’ perception, and nurse discomfort with expressive touch. Conclusion: This integrative review provides findings that assist in understanding nurses’ perceptions of expressive touch. Further research should examine the impact of gender, education, and experiences on nurses’ perceptions as they use expressive touch in nursing practice.

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“…This can be especially true if OADWS have been restrained or secluded in the past and thus subjected to unwanted, sometimes forceful, touching. It may be prudent to establish appropriate distance and forgo physical touch that is more than a brief handshake or a high five when engaging in research with OADWS (Cleary & Hungerford, 2021).…”

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Communication strategies for nursing research with older adults diagnosed with schizophrenia using life course theory

Walker

2021

J of Nursing Scholarship

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Purpose: To explore effective communication strategies that may be used to promote efficacious research with older adults diagnosed with schizophrenia.Design: A theoretical framework of Life Course Theory was used to examine the problems of communicating in research settings with older adults diagnosed with schizophrenia and present potential effective solutions to these problems.Methods: Using Life Course Theory as an underpinning, a literature review was conducted regarding communication strategies/methods commonly used in psychiatric nursing. This paper deductively presents how these strategies/methods could theoretically improve nursing research with older adults diagnosed with schizophrenia.Results: Four main potential effective strategies for communication with older adults diagnosed with schizophrenia in nursing research were identified which were (1) giving space; (2) shortened intervals; (3) the use of simple, meaningful phrases; and (4) showing engagement. Conclusions:Older adults diagnosed with schizophrenia may be given more opportunities to share their input regarding their perceptions and valuable input regarding health care systems if these effective strategies of communication are used when conducting nursing research. Clinical relevance:There is a need to gain more information regarding the perceptions of older adults diagnosed with schizophrenia as they are living longer and are entering into a health care system that is often at a quandary as to how to best care for them.The strategies delineated in this paper are part of an ongoing project to co-develop a model with older adults diagnosed with schizophrenia specifically tailored to improve their health outcomes and quality of life.

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Physical Touch in a Changing World: Guidance for the Mental Health Nurse

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The Nurses’ Perception of Expressive Touch: An Integrative Review

The Nurses’ Perception of Expressive Touch: An Integrative Review

Communication strategies for nursing research with older adults diagnosed with schizophrenia using life course theory

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