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Temporary is avoidance, forever is a lobotomy: Nurses' silence on unpopular patients
- 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 |
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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 |
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Subject(s): |
Nurse and patient Interpersonal relations Hospital patients Nurses--Attitudes |
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Held by: | Florida Atlantic University Libraries | |
Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15258 | |
Sublocation: | Digital Library | |
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Host Institution: | FAU | |
Is Part of Series: | Florida Atlantic University Digital Library Collections. |