Short or long consultations? Primary care nurses’ considerations in making appointments with general practitioners
In Sweden primary care nurses (PCNs) at the health centres (HCs) manage the appointment systems and decide the appointed length of general practice consultation time This study aims at elucidating experienced PCNs’ considerations in booking consultations of different lengths The grounds for giving l...
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crwiley:10.1046/j.1365-2648.1995.22040759.x 2024-06-02T08:12:11+00:00 Short or long consultations? Primary care nurses’ considerations in making appointments with general practitioners Andersson, Sven‐Olof Hallberg, Hans Norstrom, Viveka 1995 http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2648.1995.22040759.x https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1046%2Fj.1365-2648.1995.22040759.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.1365-2648.1995.22040759.x en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Journal of Advanced Nursing volume 22, issue 4, page 759-768 ISSN 0309-2402 1365-2648 journal-article 1995 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2648.1995.22040759.x 2024-05-03T12:03:34Z In Sweden primary care nurses (PCNs) at the health centres (HCs) manage the appointment systems and decide the appointed length of general practice consultation time This study aims at elucidating experienced PCNs’ considerations in booking consultations of different lengths The grounds for giving long or short appointments were searched for Qualitative methods were used and 10 PCNs at eight HCs in Umeå Health District in northern Sweden were interviewed The PCNs take factors from two areas into consideration, one area, often immediately apparent, concerns immediate and straightforward issues such as the patient's reported problem, the patient her/himself, the doctor her/himself and the current situation at the HC and in the catchment area The other area for consideration usually develops through experience over the years and concerns time consumption in a longer perspective The overall quality of the consultations is then in focus and the length of a separate consultation is of minor interest The PCNs do not applicate a straightforward relation between length of time and quality of consultations Experienced PCNs seem to promote accessibility of primary care and their efforts in allocating time in a practical way probably increase the quality of general practice consultation Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Sweden Wiley Online Library Journal of Advanced Nursing 22 4 759 768 |
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In Sweden primary care nurses (PCNs) at the health centres (HCs) manage the appointment systems and decide the appointed length of general practice consultation time This study aims at elucidating experienced PCNs’ considerations in booking consultations of different lengths The grounds for giving long or short appointments were searched for Qualitative methods were used and 10 PCNs at eight HCs in Umeå Health District in northern Sweden were interviewed The PCNs take factors from two areas into consideration, one area, often immediately apparent, concerns immediate and straightforward issues such as the patient's reported problem, the patient her/himself, the doctor her/himself and the current situation at the HC and in the catchment area The other area for consideration usually develops through experience over the years and concerns time consumption in a longer perspective The overall quality of the consultations is then in focus and the length of a separate consultation is of minor interest The PCNs do not applicate a straightforward relation between length of time and quality of consultations Experienced PCNs seem to promote accessibility of primary care and their efforts in allocating time in a practical way probably increase the quality of general practice consultation |
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Short or long consultations? Primary care nurses’ considerations in making appointments with general practitioners |
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Short or long consultations? Primary care nurses’ considerations in making appointments with general practitioners |
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