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lived experience of patients during family visits in the critical care setting

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Date Issued:
1997
Summary:
This study described the lived experience of patients during family visits in the critical care setting. Using Colaizzi's method of phenomenology interviews were conducted on six critical care patients in their homes two days after discharge from the hospital. From the transcribed interviews, three themes emerged: (a) Family visits enhance patients' well-being; (b) Family visits provide patient support systems; and, (c) Family visits facilitate communication among patients, the health care team, and members of the family. Implications for nursing practice, nursing education, and research are presented.
Title: The lived experience of patients during family visits in the critical care setting.
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Name(s): Remonte, Sonia D.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Locsin, Rozzano, Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1997
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 68 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: This study described the lived experience of patients during family visits in the critical care setting. Using Colaizzi's method of phenomenology interviews were conducted on six critical care patients in their homes two days after discharge from the hospital. From the transcribed interviews, three themes emerged: (a) Family visits enhance patients' well-being; (b) Family visits provide patient support systems; and, (c) Family visits facilitate communication among patients, the health care team, and members of the family. Implications for nursing practice, nursing education, and research are presented.
Identifier: 9780591334012 (isbn), 15408 (digitool), FADT15408 (IID), fau:12175 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Thesis (M.S.N.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1997.
Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
Subject(s): Intensive care units--Patients
Hospital patients
Visiting the sick
Intensive care nursing
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