Vårdmiljöns betydelse för patienters återhämtning : Ur ett patientperspektiv

Sammanfattning: Background: The health facility environment had an external, interpersonal, and internal aspect that all affected patients’ well-being and recovery. Previous research showed that nurses can affect how patients perceive the health facility environment and that it can promote as well as prevent patients’ recovery. Aim: To describe the health facility environment’s significance for recovery from the patients’ perspective. Method: A general literature overview with articles of qualitative and quantitative approaches. Results: To enjoy one’s health facility environment proved important for recovery, regarding both the external and interpersonal aspects. Relatives and healthcare staff emerged as big influences on patients’ ability to recover, as were patients’ conditions from the internal aspect where a development of oneself had a central role in recovery. A good night’s sleep appeared to be recovery promoting factor, while a poor night’s sleep prevented patients from participating in their recovery. Patients with average sleep did not consider sleep to be affecting their recovery. Conclusion: An external, interpersonal, and internal health facility environment that was recovery promoting were enjoyable, encouraging, and positive. Whilst a recovery preventing external, interpersonal, and internal health facility environment were messy, condescendingly, and negative.