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The majority of staff participants felt that they were rushing, hurrying
and physically challenged in the morning time:
“Like a regime it has to work on routine and kind of like a fast
routine.”
(H01)
“All going like the hammers.”
(H03)
And some staff participants couldn’t understand why it had to be so:
“When you’re here all day you have all day to, it’s not like you
have to rush off anywhere you know.”
(H02)
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“Well this is it there is a huge rush here and that is one of the most
frustrating things.”
(S02)
Resident and family participants also observed this state of rushing and hurrying:
“They are always busy.”
(R06) (Barthel 4)
“Like a shop or a factory floor.”
(F02)
The staff participants felt that the lack of time that they have is one impersonal
factor which prevents them from being flexible:
“We need more time for the highly dependent patients, especially
most of them in the ward isn’t it most of them so we need time and
we can’t be rushed with them because we are not working in a
factory we are working with people and they have sensation and
everything.”
(S05)
And resident participants felt that staff haven’t a lot of extra time for
them:
“Even the staff don’t have a lot of time to do things. There should
be more time given to the patients.”
(R06) (Barthel 4)
“There is no sense to time. They say five minutes and it could be one
hour….some are very obliging but once again it’s the time limit.”
(R07) (Barthel 8)