What scares patients about the hospital.
Hospitalization usually disrupts a person's privacy, autonomy, life style, roles, and finances. This article discusses the anxieties a patient can experience related to future uncertainties, insufficient information, fear of personal incompetence, being exposed to hospital rumors, and anticipated pain. Interventions to reduce patient anxiety are suggested.
Department of Nursing, Bethel College, Mishawaka, IN.
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