Table 2 Main Themes and Subthemes
From: Registered nurses’ role experiences of caring for older stroke patients: a qualitative study
Themes | Subthemes | Explanation |
Gap between ideal and reality | Role expectations | Care provision |
Education and guidance | ||
Psychological care and social support | ||
Unsatisfied reality | Focus on treatment tasks and paperwork | |
No time for bedside and psychological care | ||
Practical difficulties | Heavy workload | |
Lack time | ||
Insufficient knowledge | ||
Efforts to improve | Do as much as possible | |
Provide active services | ||
Conflicting feelings | Compassion and annoyance | Showing compassion |
Feeling annoyed sometimes | ||
Achievement and indifference | A sense of accomplishment and contentment when patients improve | |
Low spirits and a sense of futility when patients fail to make progress | ||
Become indifferent over time | ||
Physical and psychological impact | Fear becoming old and scared of getting sick | |
Occupational diseases |