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Objective:To explore the experience of the postoperative adult patients with obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome from the patients′ angle and to provide references for improving the postoperative comfort of the patients.Methods:The phenomenology research method was adopted in this study. Thirteen postoperative adult patients with obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome from Department of Otolaryngology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology participated in the in-depth interview with the interview outline. Data were analyzed by using Colaizzi′s phenomenological method.Results:Three level-1 themes and ten level-2 themes were extracted. The physical discomfort included throat discomfort, lacking of enough sleep at night, restricted diet, limitation in speaking. The negative emotion included the sense of worry, helplessness, fidget and regret. The wish of support included the wish of coping strategy and being understanded.Conclusions:The main uncomfortable experience of the patients is the throat discomfort which has the chain reaction and causes the other discomfort. So the nurses should inquire patients initiatively, cooperate with doctors and patients′ family members to relieve patients′ discomfort particularly at night, and then the patients′ quality of life, nurse-patient relationship and patients′ satisfaction may be improved.
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Objective:To retrieve, appraise and summarize the evidence for the airway humidification management of the inpatient with laryngectomy and tracheotomy but nonmechanical ventilation and to provide references for the clinical nursing.Methods:The evidence question was raised based on the study objective. The evidence was retrieved from some databases according to the evidence pyramid model during inception to December, 2018. The literature types included clinical practice guideline, evidence summary, best practice information sheet, recommended practice and systematic review. The quality of the literature were evaluated by the suitable evaluated tool based on their types. The level and recommedation grade of the evidence were appraised by the suitable tools of JBI.Results:Thirteen studies were recruited, including one clinical practice guideline, two evidence summaries, one best practice information sheet and nine systematic reviews. Totally thirteen items of best evidence were summarized and generalized to four categories including assessment, method, liquid and operation of airway humidification.Conclusion:The evidences of the studies are scientific and practical, but on the one hand, it is recommended that when applying the evidences in clinic, it is necessary to assess the clinical situation and chose the proper evidence. And on the other hand, there are lacking of some evidences of airway humidification and the level of some evidences is low. So it needs to create more high level evidences.
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Objective To explore the comfort of the patients with nasal packing after nasal endoscopic surgery from the angle of the patients, and to provide references for improving the comfort of the patients and developing the nasal comfort scale. Methods The phenomenology research method was adopted in this study. Sixteen patients with nasal packing after nasal endoscopic surgery participated in the in-depth interview which interview outline was designed basis on Kolcaba K's comfort theory. Data were analyzed by using Colaizzi's phenomenological method. Results Four level-1 themes and sixteen level-2 themes were extracted. The physical discomfort included discomfort in nose, head, eye, month, face, ear, sleep, diet and movement. The psychological discomfort included sense of unevenness and anxiety. The sociocultural discomfort included discomfort in the role of patients and bad relationship. The environmental discomfort included dry, noise and bad air in the ward. Conclusions Patients with nasal packing after nasal endoscopic surgery had many uncomfortable experiences, especially the physical discomfort. So the nurses should pay attention and develop a good reliability and validity nasal comfort scale to evaluate the comfort of these patients. Then the nurses should take active measures to relieve these discomforts, improve the patients' quality of life, make nurse-patient relationship harmonious and improve patients'satisfaction.