Implementation of the possibilities of reducing from the
nurses' and patients' points of view
Nurses and patients were asked what they thought about the
possibilities of reducing the feeling of anxiety, and how
successful such methods were applied on the given ward. Both
the nursing staff and patients gave the best and the highest
scores to the statement referring to the fact that nurses did
their best to help patients to recover quickly. Patients assessed
those statements with higher scores that dealt with, relying
on nurses, whether the nursing staff paid attention to the
patients' demands and if the atmosphere in the hospital and in
the sick-wards, as well as the surrounding environment
reflected tranquillity. Contrary to this, nurses evaluated those
statements with higher scores that referred to preparing
patients for surgery or that patients could always talk about
their fears with them and so they could often put the patients'
heart at rest.
In relationship to the two questions nurses were also asked
to assess not only themselves, but in addition the general
the nursing profession. It is important to highlight that in the
case of both questions, nurses gave higher scores when they
had to evaluate their own work rather than when they did it in
a general sense (Table 5).