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"Finding a snowflake": A journey into caring as experienced by nurse managers
Title
"Finding a snowflake": A journey into caring as experienced by nurse managers.
Creator
Bartolon, Marian Carmel., Florida Atlantic University, Brown, Carolyn L.
Abstract/Description
The purpose of this phenomenological research was to capture the experience of caring in the lived world of the nurse managers. Interviews with six nurse managers were utilized to generate data and then transcribed into text. The researcher's analysis of the data followed the phenomenological method as interpreted by Ray. Essential themes of growth, listening, frustration, intuition, support, and receiving of gifts were described by participants. Variant themes of touch, humor, flexibility,...
Show moreThe purpose of this phenomenological research was to capture the experience of caring in the lived world of the nurse managers. Interviews with six nurse managers were utilized to generate data and then transcribed into text. The researcher's analysis of the data followed the phenomenological method as interpreted by Ray. Essential themes of growth, listening, frustration, intuition, support, and receiving of gifts were described by participants. Variant themes of touch, humor, flexibility, counseling, limitations, and competence also emerged. Interpretive themes of nurses' way of being, reciprocal caring, and caring moment as transcendence unfolded. A metatheme of energy emerged from further analysis. Deeper reflection and intuition afforded the researcher the opportunity to grasp the unity of meaning as a metaphorical snowflake and poetic expression.
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Date Issued
1992
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14864
Subject Headings
Caring, Nurse administrators
Format
Document (PDF)
Factors influencing the retention of nurse preceptors in a critical care education program
Title
Factors influencing the retention of nurse preceptors in a critical care education program.
Creator
Borglund, Susan T., Florida Atlantic University, Brown, Carolyn L.
Abstract/Description
The use of nurse preceptors in critical care education programs is an accepted method of orienting unskilled nurses to critical care units. Data generated from focus group interviews of experienced nurse preceptors were used to identify, describe and understand the factors that influence nurse preceptors to decide whether or not to remain participants in the education program. The willingness of nurse preceptors to continue participation may depend on preceptor desire to share with others,...
Show moreThe use of nurse preceptors in critical care education programs is an accepted method of orienting unskilled nurses to critical care units. Data generated from focus group interviews of experienced nurse preceptors were used to identify, describe and understand the factors that influence nurse preceptors to decide whether or not to remain participants in the education program. The willingness of nurse preceptors to continue participation may depend on preceptor desire to share with others, preceptor ability to resolve conflict and understanding by all partners in the critical care education program of the preceptor role's complexity. As the need for skilled critical care nurses grows, knowledge and understanding of these factors may assist nurses in education, administration and practice in planning strategies to support preceptors in their roles.
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Date Issued
1993
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14943
Subject Headings
Intensive care nursing--Study and teaching, Nursing--Study and teaching (Preceptorship)
Format
Document (PDF)
Empower: A concept analysis for the new paradigm
Title
Empower: A concept analysis for the new paradigm.
Creator
Siccardi, Patricia Mahoney., Florida Atlantic University, Brown, Carolyn L.
Abstract/Description
Concepts create our language and shape our world. Clarifying concepts will empower nurses to facilitate the changes needed in the future. Rodgers' (1989) evolutionary method of concept analysis was used to clarify the meaning of empower. This method was further developed to be congruent with the new processual paradigm foundational for this study. In order to examine the concept, a systematic random sample of 30 articles from the periodic literature of five disciplines was used (nursing,...
Show moreConcepts create our language and shape our world. Clarifying concepts will empower nurses to facilitate the changes needed in the future. Rodgers' (1989) evolutionary method of concept analysis was used to clarify the meaning of empower. This method was further developed to be congruent with the new processual paradigm foundational for this study. In order to examine the concept, a systematic random sample of 30 articles from the periodic literature of five disciplines was used (nursing, sociology, psychology, education, and business). Through a reflective analytic process twenty-nine attributes of the concept were identified and gathered into the five themes representing the concept. Two metathemes were identified, one for the concept and one for the context of the concept. To give, share, and/or have the ability to fully participate in life situations and experience well-being in the process is the definition of empower, as it emerged in the study.
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Date Issued
1992
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14858
Subject Headings
Caring, Nursing--Philosophy
Format
Document (PDF)
phenomenological study of caring in the nurse-patient relationship: The patient's perspective
Title
A phenomenological study of caring in the nurse-patient relationship: The patient's perspective.
Creator
Weaver, Rosella A., Florida Atlantic University, Brown, Carolyn L.
Abstract/Description
This research is a qualitative study using the phenomenological method to gain insight into the meaning of caring for the patient. Many nurse leaders have described caring as the essence of nursing (Benner & Wrubel, 1989,; Leininger, 1981, 1984a, 1988; Watson, 1985a, 1988b). The purpose of the study was to address the meaning of caring from the patient's perspective. The specific phenomenological method used was based on the work of Max van Manen (1984). A purposive sample of 8 adults, 6...
Show moreThis research is a qualitative study using the phenomenological method to gain insight into the meaning of caring for the patient. Many nurse leaders have described caring as the essence of nursing (Benner & Wrubel, 1989,; Leininger, 1981, 1984a, 1988; Watson, 1985a, 1988b). The purpose of the study was to address the meaning of caring from the patient's perspective. The specific phenomenological method used was based on the work of Max van Manen (1984). A purposive sample of 8 adults, 6 women and 2 men, in an acute care setting was selected. An unstructured interview technique was used. Through structured reflection the process of caring emerged as themes. These included: nurse's knowledge, nurse's presence, involvement and commitment. Expressions of caring emerged as subthemes. The subthemes included: decision making, competent clinical skills, nurse's true presence, nurse's availability, accepting, understanding, helping and informing. A model of caring from the patient's perspective was developed.
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Date Issued
1990
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14664
Subject Headings
Nurse and patient, Caring, Nursing--Philosophy
Format
Document (PDF)