Nursing & Primary Care
Open AccessBackground Sounds and Noises in Hospital: A Proactive Analysis of Psychological Repercussions on Patients in the "Santissima Annunziata" Hospital, Taranto, Italy
Authors: Elsa Vitale, Cosimo Della Pietà, Attilio Gualano, Sergio Marino, Francesco Germini.
Abstract
The aim of the research was to investigate the noise in its various variables, the sources and the repercussions on patients and on nursing care, trying to find useful ideas and possible solutions to propose to improve the well-being of hospitalized people and at the same time of the nursing.
An ad hoc anonymously questionnaire was administered. To nurses operating in resuscitation, first aid, women’s medicine, general surgery, neurosurgery and orthopedics wards.
Data collected and analyzed provide two important pieces aspects: the assistance activities towards patients by nurses do not involve the reduction or interruption of sounds and noises in the hospital ward and the lack of knowledge of professionals highlighted about the psycho-physical repercussions caused by continuous exposure to sources of sounds and noises.
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