title: Privacy: a key nursing concept.
abstract: This article discusses how intrusion of territory and personal space produces anxiety and feelings of depersonalisation in hospitalised clients. The implications of privacy as applied to nursing contexts are also examined. Finally, there is a brief discussion of the use of space by staff in terms of status and function.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Glen
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jownally
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000523:psychology*; D010550:Personal Space