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Temporary is avoidance, forever is a lobotomy: Nurses' silence on unpopular patients

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Date Issued:
1996
Summary:
This qualitative study of the phenomenon of nurse providing care to a client that the nurse does not like or determines to be unpopular was conducted with five professional nurses, who had experienced the phenomenon. Phenomenological method guided the inquiry through the narrative descriptions, from which essential descriptive themes of secrecy, avoidance, internalized conflict, specialness, and unfinishedness were uncovered and revealed by dwelling with the material. The implications for nursing education, nursing practice and nursing research are discussed.
Title: Temporary is avoidance, forever is a lobotomy: Nurses' silence on unpopular patients.
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Name(s): Little, Daniel James.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Coffman, Sherrilyn, Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1996
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 166 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: This qualitative study of the phenomenon of nurse providing care to a client that the nurse does not like or determines to be unpopular was conducted with five professional nurses, who had experienced the phenomenon. Phenomenological method guided the inquiry through the narrative descriptions, from which essential descriptive themes of secrecy, avoidance, internalized conflict, specialness, and unfinishedness were uncovered and revealed by dwelling with the material. The implications for nursing education, nursing practice and nursing research are discussed.
Identifier: 15258 (digitool), FADT15258 (IID), fau:12029 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Thesis (M.S.N.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1996.
Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
Subject(s): Nurse and patient
Interpersonal relations
Hospital patients
Nurses--Attitudes
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