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The lived world experience of the Registered Nurse, First Assistant (RNFA)
| Title: | The lived world experience of the Registered Nurse, First Assistant (RNFA). |
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| Name(s): |
Smith, Jennifer R. Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor Locsin, Rozzano, 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: | 110 p. | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Summary: | With the current trends in health care, new avenues must be explored in order to contain cost, yet provide for quality care. The Registered Nurse, First Assistant (RNFA) provides a cost effective alternative to another surgeon as surgical assistant. Using Max van Manen's phenomenological method, four RNFAs participated in semistructured audio-taped interviews, in order to explore their lived world experience. Six essences of being an RNFA emerged from the data: being a nurse/nursing; a way of being with others/presence; a way of doing for others; constancy/continualness; experience/knowing; and, a sense of self-completeness. These were interwoven against the lifeworld existentials of relationality, spatiality, temporality, and corporeality. The findings revealed that the RNFA offers uniqueness as nursing and uniqueness as experience. | |
| Identifier: | 15100 (digitool), FADT15100 (IID), fau:11877 (fedora) | |
| Note(s): |
Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing Thesis (M.S.N.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1994. |
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| Subject(s): |
Nursing--Practice Operating room nursing Surgical nursing |
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| Held by: | Florida Atlantic University Libraries | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15100 | |
| 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. |
