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<strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Nursing</strong> & <strong>Midwifery</strong>, <strong>Trinity</strong> College Dublin: 8 th Annual Interdisciplinary Research <strong>Conference</strong><br />

Transforming Healthcare Through Research, Education & Technology: 7 th – 9 th November 2007<br />

<strong>Conference</strong> <strong>Proceedings</strong><br />

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An Exploratory Descriptive Study <strong>of</strong> what Shared-Decision<br />

Making with Patients Means to Nurses in an Acute Hospital<br />

Setting<br />

Ms Joan Donegan RGN, RM, PG Dip Clinical Practice<br />

Project Officer for Education<br />

Centre for <strong>Nursing</strong> & <strong>Midwifery</strong> Education<br />

Mellifont Unit<br />

St Brigid's Complex<br />

Ardee<br />

Co Louth<br />

Honor Nicholl, MEd, BSc. RSCN,RGN,RCNT,RNT<br />

<strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Nursing</strong> and <strong>Midwifery</strong>,<br />

<strong>Trinity</strong> College Dublin<br />

Tel 003531-8963702<br />

Email nichollh@tcd.ie<br />

Background: The researcher is a recently appointed Education<br />

Officer in a Centre <strong>of</strong> Nurse Education and has more than twenty<br />

years <strong>of</strong> clinical experience. Government and the Irish nursing<br />

pr<strong>of</strong>essional organisation recommend that nurses’ should promote<br />

shared decision making with patients. However the researcher has<br />

observed through observation <strong>of</strong> clinical practice and conversation<br />

with nurses’, that there is a lack <strong>of</strong> understanding <strong>of</strong> this concept<br />

and what it means in practice. On a search <strong>of</strong> nursing journals<br />

there was a paucity <strong>of</strong> studies <strong>of</strong> shared decision making in acute<br />

setting. Hence the decision to explore with nurses what shared<br />

decision making means to nurses in an acute hospital setting.<br />

Aim: The aim <strong>of</strong> this study was to explore what shared decision<br />

making means to nurse in an acute hospital setting<br />

Methodology: Using purposeful sampling and a qualitative<br />

descriptive approach, data was collected from semi structured<br />

interviews with six nurses from three acute hospitals in the Republic<br />

<strong>of</strong> Ireland. An analysis framework devised by Bradley, Curry and<br />

Devers (2006) was adapted for use.<br />

Results: Findings from the study indicated that when nurses shared<br />

decisions with patients they ‘worked with the patient’. When they<br />

did not share decisions with patients they ‘worked for the patient’.<br />

Giving information was a key attribute <strong>of</strong> shared decision making.<br />

Factors that influenced shared decision concerned the nurse, the<br />

patient, the environment and the nurse as ‘self’.<br />

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