Environment
According to Patterson and Zderad, the environment represents the place where the service is delivered, the community or the world.
The environment can be understood as the time and space in which the nursing experience takes place. From the existential perspective, it is the time and space as lived by the nurse and/or patient during the experience.
"For example, waiting, silence, chronicity, emergency, positioning a patient in bed, moving through space in a wheelchair, crutch-walking, pacing, could be considered from the standpoint of the patient's experienced space and time, or from the nurse's, or as a shared event. Explorations of this kind could provide valuable insights into important nursing phenomena, such as, presence, empathy, comfort, timing. "
To understand the nursing dialogue, one must put the experience in the context of time: the time lived as the patient and the nurse. The nurse and the patient may be interacting within the same actual time span, but the time may feel very different to the nurse and client. Their experiences of time are unique to their understanding of the situation.
Space is the lived perception of the world around the nurse and patient. Space could be the hospital room, the bed, the waiting room, the visiting area or any other space in which the interaction takes place. The physical environment can enhance or impede the nursing dialogue based on how comfortable the participants feel and how well the space encourages communication.
Place is another component of space, but it is more personalized; it belongs to the patient or nurse and is highly subjective. It relates to "where I feel I belong or am". A person may feel out of place or may feel at home or welcomed in the place. The nurse may feel comfortable in the place while the patient does not.
Space and time coincide within the nursing experience. For example, after a longer stay in a hospital, for example, a patient may begin to feel at home, when initially it was foreign. The nursing dialogue is reinforced when the nurse understands how the patient relates to their space.
The environment can be understood as the time and space in which the nursing experience takes place. From the existential perspective, it is the time and space as lived by the nurse and/or patient during the experience.
"For example, waiting, silence, chronicity, emergency, positioning a patient in bed, moving through space in a wheelchair, crutch-walking, pacing, could be considered from the standpoint of the patient's experienced space and time, or from the nurse's, or as a shared event. Explorations of this kind could provide valuable insights into important nursing phenomena, such as, presence, empathy, comfort, timing. "
To understand the nursing dialogue, one must put the experience in the context of time: the time lived as the patient and the nurse. The nurse and the patient may be interacting within the same actual time span, but the time may feel very different to the nurse and client. Their experiences of time are unique to their understanding of the situation.
Space is the lived perception of the world around the nurse and patient. Space could be the hospital room, the bed, the waiting room, the visiting area or any other space in which the interaction takes place. The physical environment can enhance or impede the nursing dialogue based on how comfortable the participants feel and how well the space encourages communication.
Place is another component of space, but it is more personalized; it belongs to the patient or nurse and is highly subjective. It relates to "where I feel I belong or am". A person may feel out of place or may feel at home or welcomed in the place. The nurse may feel comfortable in the place while the patient does not.
Space and time coincide within the nursing experience. For example, after a longer stay in a hospital, for example, a patient may begin to feel at home, when initially it was foreign. The nursing dialogue is reinforced when the nurse understands how the patient relates to their space.