Acute asthma: treatment and outcome of 2000 consecutive pediatric emergency room visits in Doha, Qatar |
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Authors: | ST Dawod MS Ehlayel VM Osundwa |
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Affiliation: | College of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Charlotte 28223, USA. |
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Abstract: | Caring for a "difficult patient" is a concern frequently communicated among nurses and reported in the clinical and research literature. A theoretical perspective explaining the phenomenon of difficult patients is proposed and is based on a reformulation of propositions from labeling theory and the concept of social deviance. Applications to nursing practice focus on patient characteristics judged as deviant by nurses, communication of the deviant label, and exclusionary and inclusionary reactions to perceived patient deviance. |
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