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AIDS as a call for nurse caring: A phenomenological perspective
Title
AIDS as a call for nurse caring: A phenomenological perspective.
Creator
Madayag, Tomas Mina Jr., Florida Atlantic University, Schoenhofer, Savina, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
Abstract/Description
The question that laid the basis for this study is: What is the meaning of nurse caring for patients with AIDS? This experience was unearthed through the phenomenological approaches of Van Manen and Munhall. The existential lived worlds provided the guide in amplifying the situatedness of participants. Through hermeneutical analysis, these themes emerged: being-with for another, knowing as a source of understanding and compassion, AIDS as stigma, AIDS as a call for nurse caring, connecting...
Show moreThe question that laid the basis for this study is: What is the meaning of nurse caring for patients with AIDS? This experience was unearthed through the phenomenological approaches of Van Manen and Munhall. The existential lived worlds provided the guide in amplifying the situatedness of participants. Through hermeneutical analysis, these themes emerged: being-with for another, knowing as a source of understanding and compassion, AIDS as stigma, AIDS as a call for nurse caring, connecting-severing, fear as a cause of dissonance, attachment by proxy, the experience of feeling for, corporeal vulnerability, the nurse as spiritless body, death as solace, and living time as hope. These findings were integrated with Roach's theory of nursing as the deliberate affirmation of caring as the human mode of being.
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Date Issued
1993
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14955
Subject Headings
Health Sciences, Nursing
Format
Document (PDF)
Building the family network: A community is born
Title
Building the family network: A community is born.
Creator
Petit, Robin Cecilie, Florida Atlantic University, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
Abstract/Description
This research study is a description of the meaning of membership in a network of families affected by HIV-AIDS. Four network members were interviewed using a phenomenological approach to guide the inquiry. Narrative descriptions were generated which revealed six essential themes. They were: "Reaching Out to Each Other", "Building a Foundation", "Sharing Hope", "Growing Stronger", "Respecting and Accepting", and "Belonging Together." One Metatheme emerged "Building a Community." The...
Show moreThis research study is a description of the meaning of membership in a network of families affected by HIV-AIDS. Four network members were interviewed using a phenomenological approach to guide the inquiry. Narrative descriptions were generated which revealed six essential themes. They were: "Reaching Out to Each Other", "Building a Foundation", "Sharing Hope", "Growing Stronger", "Respecting and Accepting", and "Belonging Together." One Metatheme emerged "Building a Community." The implications for nursing practice, education and research are discussed.
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Date Issued
1996
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15348
Subject Headings
Psychology, Social, Health Sciences, Nursing, Health Sciences, Public Health, Sociology, Individual and Family Studies
Format
Document (PDF)
Knowing the patient: A process of recognition
Title
Knowing the patient: A process of recognition.
Creator
Osso, Maria Brusco., Florida Atlantic University, Locsin, Rozzano, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
Abstract/Description
The purpose of this study was to explore how professional nurses recognize patterns of patient interaction with the environment. It is postulated that through pattern recognition professional nurses can help interventions toward patient's well-being and health promotion. A qualitative research design employing the method of grounded theory analysis was utilized. The pattern of patient interactions with the environment was Knowing the Patient, a process of recognition that includes Initiating...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to explore how professional nurses recognize patterns of patient interaction with the environment. It is postulated that through pattern recognition professional nurses can help interventions toward patient's well-being and health promotion. A qualitative research design employing the method of grounded theory analysis was utilized. The pattern of patient interactions with the environment was Knowing the Patient, a process of recognition that includes Initiating Contact, Gathering Information, Working with the Information, Acting on the Information, and Pattern Recognition. Two psychosocial conditions that appear to influence this process are time with the patient, and nurse's sense of obligation. The results of the study suggest that recognition of patients' patterns facilitate the planning and implementations of nursing actions which effectively promote patient well-being, and health.
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Date Issued
1995
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15142
Subject Headings
Health Sciences, Nursing
Format
Document (PDF)
lived experience of listening to music while recovering from surgery
Title
The lived experience of listening to music while recovering from surgery.
Creator
McCaffrey, Ruth G., Florida Atlantic University, Locsin, Rozzano, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
Abstract/Description
This study provides a phenomenological analysis of living the experience of listening to music while recovering from surgery. The qualitative method used was that of Van Manen, as adapted by Munhall and outlined by Madayag. Specifically, this study describes three themes that emerged from transcribed interviews from eight participants who listened to music during recovery: (1) "comfort" from a discomforting condition which reveals the existential lived world of temporality; (2) "familiarity"...
Show moreThis study provides a phenomenological analysis of living the experience of listening to music while recovering from surgery. The qualitative method used was that of Van Manen, as adapted by Munhall and outlined by Madayag. Specifically, this study describes three themes that emerged from transcribed interviews from eight participants who listened to music during recovery: (1) "comfort" from a discomforting condition which reveals the existential lived world of temporality; (2) "familiarity" in a strange environment, revealing the lived world of spaciality, and (3) "distraction" from fear, pain and anxiety, as the lived world of corporeality. In addition, implications for nursing research, practice, and education are discussed.
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Date Issued
1996
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15324
Subject Headings
Health Sciences, Rehabilitation and Therapy, Music, Health Sciences, Nursing
Format
Document (PDF)
magnetic appeal of nurse informaticians: Caring attractor for emergence
Title
The magnetic appeal of nurse informaticians: Caring attractor for emergence.
Creator
Swinderman, Todd D., Florida Atlantic University, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
Abstract/Description
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to understand the meaning of transition from the art of handwritten nursing documentation to electronic documentation from the lived experiences of nurse informaticians. Chaos Theory within Complexity Sciences and Ray's Bureaucratic Caring Theory informed the study. The Swinderman Research Model was created to visualize the tension between order and chaos in nursing practice. Twelve nurse informaticians were interviewed about their experiences in...
Show moreThe purpose of this phenomenological study was to understand the meaning of transition from the art of handwritten nursing documentation to electronic documentation from the lived experiences of nurse informaticians. Chaos Theory within Complexity Sciences and Ray's Bureaucratic Caring Theory informed the study. The Swinderman Research Model was created to visualize the tension between order and chaos in nursing practice. Twelve nurse informaticians were interviewed about their experiences in designing, building, implementing and supporting electronic nursing documentation systems using van Marten's human science phenomenological method. Descriptive themes where illuminated and metathemes were interpreted from the research data. The universal whole of nursing informatics was expressed as self-in-relation through the metaphor of magnetic appeal linking the metathemes of inspired leadership and education, caring relationships, complexity, and technology. The metaphor of magnetic appeal illuminates the nurse informatician as the embodiment of caring with gifts as educator, negotiator, translator, and liaison. The Swinderman Research Model was enhanced using the research to create further the Swinderman Conceptual Model for Nursing Informatics. Chaos Theory within Complexity Sciences facilitated the understanding of the subtle dynamic patterns of flux and flow and choice-making in nursing. The Swinderman Conceptual Model for Nursing Informatics emerged as the future of Nursing Informatics in the transformation from handwritten to electronic nursing documentation in complex healthcare organizations.
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Date Issued
2005
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12130
Subject Headings
Health Sciences, Nursing
Format
Document (PDF)