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A conspiracy of caring: The meaning of the client's experience of nursing as the promotion of well-being
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A conspiracy of caring: The meaning of the client's experience of nursing as the promotion of well-being.
Creator
Wallace, Cathie L., Florida Atlantic University, Appleton, Cathy
Abstract/Description
This research explored the client's experience of nursing as the promotion of well-being. The question guiding the study was: What is the meaning of nursing as the promotion of well-being? Using a phenomenological-hermeneutical approach, eight participants described their experiences of the phenomenon. Three metathemes emerged and expressed nursing as the promotion of well-being: (1) Being There Conveys a Willingness to Relate; (2) Being With Enables the Feeling of Comfort; and (3) Being in...
Show moreThis research explored the client's experience of nursing as the promotion of well-being. The question guiding the study was: What is the meaning of nursing as the promotion of well-being? Using a phenomenological-hermeneutical approach, eight participants described their experiences of the phenomenon. Three metathemes emerged and expressed nursing as the promotion of well-being: (1) Being There Conveys a Willingness to Relate; (2) Being With Enables the Feeling of Comfort; and (3) Being in Tune While Creating the Future. Further analysis led to the apprehension of a unity of meaning: An Emancipating Togetherness--The Creation of a Caring Synchrony that Empowers a New Meaning for Living. The metaphor, A Conspiracy of Caring, conveys a theory of the meaning of nursing as the promotion of well-being.
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Date Issued
1992
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14874
Subject Headings
Nursing--Philosophy, Caring, Nurse and patient
Format
Document (PDF)
Nursing practice in a contemporary health care corporation: Nurses' tensions and torment
Title
Nursing practice in a contemporary health care corporation: Nurses' tensions and torment.
Creator
David, Beverly Ann., Florida Atlantic University, Appleton, Cathy
Abstract/Description
Tensions exist between the ideology of caring as a nursing practice ideal, and the corporately managed health care settings in which nurses work. The objective of this critical feminist ethnography was to understand these tensions by grounding them in nurses' experiences and perceptions. Data was gathered through ethnographic interviewing and participant-observations of a nurse key informant and her co-workers in the pediatric unit of a corporately managed acute care hospital. The data were...
Show moreTensions exist between the ideology of caring as a nursing practice ideal, and the corporately managed health care settings in which nurses work. The objective of this critical feminist ethnography was to understand these tensions by grounding them in nurses' experiences and perceptions. Data was gathered through ethnographic interviewing and participant-observations of a nurse key informant and her co-workers in the pediatric unit of a corporately managed acute care hospital. The data were analyzed according to the coding procedures and comparative method described by Strauss and Corbin (1990). Four characteristics of the corporate health care culture that conflict with nurses' practice ideals were identified: The Corporate Productivity Motive; The Priority of a Medical Regime Over Nursing Care; The Tolerance of Risk to Patient Safety; and The Hospitality Perspective. A critique of the patriarchal value structure that influences the health care system and recommendations for nursing practice, education, and research is provided.
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Date Issued
1996
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15341
Subject Headings
Nursing--Philosophy, Caring, Feminism, Medical care, Health services administration
Format
Document (PDF)
Creating a healing portrait of the soul's journey: A description of spiritually emergent nursing
Title
Creating a healing portrait of the soul's journey: A description of spiritually emergent nursing.
Creator
Howell, Julia Ann., Florida Atlantic University, Appleton, Cathy
Abstract/Description
This research explored a nurse's experience of creating visual art with patients in clinical settings. The question guiding the study was: What is the experience of creating visual art for a nurse? The aim of this descriptive study was to discover what is the nature of the experience of creating visual art as an aspect of nursing care from a nurse's perspective. Using van Manen's phenomenological approach, a description of the experience of creating visual art with patients occurred. Five...
Show moreThis research explored a nurse's experience of creating visual art with patients in clinical settings. The question guiding the study was: What is the experience of creating visual art for a nurse? The aim of this descriptive study was to discover what is the nature of the experience of creating visual art as an aspect of nursing care from a nurse's perspective. Using van Manen's phenomenological approach, a description of the experience of creating visual art with patients occurred. Five essential themes emerged and express this experience. The unity of meaning for the experience is portrayed as A Healing Portrait of the Soul's Journey in Compassionate, Cocreative Relationships of Openness, Human Connectedness and Transformation. Implications for nursing inquiry, practice, and education are discussed.
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Date Issued
1994
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15034
Subject Headings
Nursing, Art therapy, Caring
Format
Document (PDF)
Homeless mothers' perceptions of their experience of receiving nursing care
Title
Homeless mothers' perceptions of their experience of receiving nursing care.
Creator
Moore, Vivian Soeder., Florida Atlantic University, Appleton, Cathy
Abstract/Description
This research study is a description of the experience of receiving nursing care for homeless mothers. Nine homeless mothers, who described their experience of receiving nursing care, were selected as participants. Using a phenomenological approach to guide the inquiry, narrative descriptions were generated from interviews with each participant. The homeless mothers' experience of receiving nursing care is described in two essential descriptive themes: (1) being homeless, and (2) receiving...
Show moreThis research study is a description of the experience of receiving nursing care for homeless mothers. Nine homeless mothers, who described their experience of receiving nursing care, were selected as participants. Using a phenomenological approach to guide the inquiry, narrative descriptions were generated from interviews with each participant. The homeless mothers' experience of receiving nursing care is described in two essential descriptive themes: (1) being homeless, and (2) receiving nursing care. The implications of these mothers' experience for nursing education, practice, and research are discussed.
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Date Issued
1993
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14967
Subject Headings
Nursing assessment, Homeless women--Medical care
Format
Document (PDF)
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.
Creator
Stobie, Marjorie Michele., Florida Atlantic University, Appleton, Cathy
Abstract/Description
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...
Show moreThe 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.
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Date Issued
1994
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15045
Subject Headings
AIDS (Disease)--Nursing, Caregivers, Chronically ill--Home care
Format
Document (PDF)
The adolescent's experience of being accepted by a nurse
Title
The adolescent's experience of being accepted by a nurse.
Creator
Weissman, Jodi Karen., Florida Atlantic University, Appleton, Cathy
Abstract/Description
This is a phenomenological research study of the adolescent's experience of being accepted by a nurse. Six adolescents were selected who acknowledged and articulated their experience of being accepted by a nurse. The conceptual framework is derived from Paterson and Zderad's (1988) Humanistic Theory of Nursing. van Manen's (1984) approach to phenomenology was used to guide this inquiry. Data were generated using exploratory, in-depth, face-to-face interviews. The adolescent's experience of...
Show moreThis is a phenomenological research study of the adolescent's experience of being accepted by a nurse. Six adolescents were selected who acknowledged and articulated their experience of being accepted by a nurse. The conceptual framework is derived from Paterson and Zderad's (1988) Humanistic Theory of Nursing. van Manen's (1984) approach to phenomenology was used to guide this inquiry. Data were generated using exploratory, in-depth, face-to-face interviews. The adolescent's experience of being accepted by a nurse is expressed by three metathemes: (1) the nurse is a friend; (2) the nurse's caring helps the adolescent feel better; and (3) the adolescent feels comfortable with the nurse. The implications of acceptance for nursing education, practice, and research are discussed.
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Date Issued
1992
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14866
Subject Headings
Caring, Nurse and patient, Teenagers--Medical care, Adolescent psychiatric nursing
Format
Document (PDF)
The meaning of the experience of parenting a child with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
Title
The meaning of the experience of parenting a child with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Creator
Parker, Robin Barbara., Florida Atlantic University, Appleton, Cathy
Abstract/Description
This phenomenological study reveals the meaning of the experience of parenting a child with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. The research participants were six parents who were contacted through a local community based support group or by professional referral. The methodology used for this study was a descriptive qualitative research process with a phenomenological design. Hermeneutic phenomenology as described by van Manen (1990) provided the method of inquiry and analysis for this...
Show moreThis phenomenological study reveals the meaning of the experience of parenting a child with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. The research participants were six parents who were contacted through a local community based support group or by professional referral. The methodology used for this study was a descriptive qualitative research process with a phenomenological design. Hermeneutic phenomenology as described by van Manen (1990) provided the method of inquiry and analysis for this study. Participants were asked to participate in open-ended, audiotaped interviews describing their subjective experience of parenting. Five essential themes emerged from the analysis of the participants' narrative descriptions.
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Date Issued
1994
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15066
Subject Headings
Attention-deficit-disordered children, Hyperactive children--Family relationships, Parent and child, Child rearing
Format
Document (PDF)
Future role of nurses in long-term care of late life adults
Title
Future role of nurses in long-term care of late life adults.
Creator
Zebrowski, Bonita Gene, Florida Atlantic University, Appleton, Cathy, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
Abstract/Description
By the year 2020 with an estimated 55 million persons age sixty-five or greater, the aging of the population will replace population growth in national importance. In a population top heavy with aged individuals, patterns of disease and disability will be radically different from that of a population with a broad base of neonates. Presently, 86% of individuals age sixty-five and greater are living with one or more chronic diseases that require long-term care. The goal of this research was to...
Show moreBy the year 2020 with an estimated 55 million persons age sixty-five or greater, the aging of the population will replace population growth in national importance. In a population top heavy with aged individuals, patterns of disease and disability will be radically different from that of a population with a broad base of neonates. Presently, 86% of individuals age sixty-five and greater are living with one or more chronic diseases that require long-term care. The goal of this research was to define the future role of nurses in long-term care of late life adults. The futures methods used in this descriptive study include trend extrapolation and scenario building. The major finding of this research was the overburdening of the existing care systems by demographic pressures. The results of this research provide nurses with a basis for long-term strategic planning related to the future role of nurses in caring for late life adults.
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Date Issued
1994
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15069
Subject Headings
Older people--Medical care, Older people--Long-term care, Geriatric nursing
Format
Document (PDF)