could any native speaker read and correct the following abstract ? It has been sent to me by a nurse on training (she was one of my pupils a long time ago).
The quality of home care
As a student in Nursing, as part of
the assessment of her Teaching Unit
3.4 "Introduction to the research
process," she had to write an end-of-study dissertation on a real life situation.
During one of her second year courses
she experienced a situation with private nurses probably
common but which she dealt with
in her graduation dissertation.
Indeed, she went several times into a patient �s unsanitary house, which made her wonder: �In an environment where the rules of hygiene are
difficult to apply, what are the possible means
available to the private nurses
to enable them to provide quality care?�
To try to understand this, she chose to treat the following concepts using
materials she could find and books: the nurse,
the quality of care, hygiene and the
patient �s environment.
Following the development of these concepts, a
problem has emerged:
"How is the quality of the
environment involved in quality
care and in the patient �s welfare? But
assumptions also appeared:
- If the patient improved his environment, the nurse could make a liberal
quality care.
- Home care would be
high-quality care if the patient paid as much attention to his personal hygiene
as to his environment.
She subsequently had two
interviews with two nurses to gain additional information on the subject.
This work allowed her to have a thorough
look on her future professional practice and think about how she would have
faced a similar situation if one day it became a liberal nurse.
