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The experience of nurses caring for the primary caregivers of persons living with AIDS
| Title: | The experience of nurses caring for the primary caregivers of persons living with AIDS. |
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| Name(s): |
Stobie, Marjorie Michele. Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor Appleton, Cathy, Thesis advisor |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation | |
| Issuance: | monographic | |
| Date Issued: | 1994 | |
| Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
| Place of Publication: | Boca Raton, Fla. | |
| Physical Form: | application/pdf | |
| Extent: | 144 p. | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Summary: | The rising incidence of Acquired Immune Disease Syndrome (AIDS), the increased length of survival for persons living with AIDS (PLWAs), and the associated high costs, suggest that patients will want and need to be cared for at home by family caregivers. If caring is the essence of nursing (Leininger, 1988a; Watson, 1985), then research on caring will expand nurses' understanding of what caring means to the recipient: the patients and their primary caregivers. The purpose of this phenomenological study of primary caregivers of PLWAs was to discover the meaning of their being cared for by the nurse. Colaizzi's (1978) method of data analysis was used. The experience of being cared for by the nurse for caregivers of PLWAs was knowing that they were in a relationship, in this together with a nurse who was there for them; experiencing the nurse's way of being as a competent friend; and being helped to cope with the experience of being a caregiver through specific nursing actions. Implications for practice, education and research are discussed. | |
| Identifier: | 15045 (digitool), FADT15045 (IID), fau:11823 (fedora) | |
| Note(s): |
Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing Thesis (M.S.N.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1994. |
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| Subject(s): |
AIDS (Disease)--Nursing Caregivers Chronically ill--Home care |
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| Held by: | Florida Atlantic University Libraries | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15045 | |
| Sublocation: | Digital Library | |
| Use and Reproduction: | Copyright © is held by the author with permission granted to Florida Atlantic University to digitize, archive and distribute this item for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires permission of the copyright holder. | |
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| Host Institution: | FAU | |
| Is Part of Series: | Florida Atlantic University Digital Library Collections. |
