Encounters in a locked XXXX ward environment.

@entity1 @entity1277 @entity146
This focused ethnographic study aims at describing encounters in the healthcare environment on a locked @entity146 ward. It was carried out in Sweden on an acute @entity146 ward for @entity1 with affective and @entity1277 . Data were collected through @entity1 observations and informal interviews, and analysed by qualitative content analysis. The result shows that the healthcare environment on this locked @entity146 ward offered a space for encounters between @entity1 , in a continuum from professional care to private meetings and social events. It included joy and friendship as well as unintentional insights into other @entity1 ' suffering. The characteristics of the encounters formed three themes: the caring relationship, the uncaring relationship and the unrecognized relationship. The caring and the uncaring relationship concerned relationships between staff and @entity1 or their next of kin. These revealed contrasting qualities such as respect and flexibility as well as lack of respect and mistrust. The unrecognized relationship theme visualized the @entity1 ' relationships with each other and included both supportive and intrusive elements that were probably significant for the outcome of care. The unrecognized relationship contributes with new knowledge about conditions for @entity1 in inpatient care, and indicates that the @entity1 ' relationships with each other merit greater attention.
