Browsing by Level of Evidence "Phenomenology"
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Adult Patient Perceptions of Nurse Listening Behaviors in an Acute Care Setting
Good listening is fundamental to effective nursing practice, critical to a healthcare professional’s competence, and essential for patient satisfaction and experience. Because nurse listening has been linked to an enhanced ... -
Being a constant presence in a sea of change: The lived experience of vigil keeping for a family member at end of life
An end-of-life vigil is the act of being with another towards death. A family vigil is a phenomenon that occurs when one or more significant others gather by the bedside of a family member in the weeks, days, or hours prior ... -
Between This World and the Next: The Lived Experience of Having a Life-threatening Illness
Wonderings about hospice patients' experience of dying evolved into the question, “What is it like to have a life-threatening illness?” That question guided this interpretive phenomenological inquiry. Phenomenology is a ... -
Caring and Transformation in Oncology Nursing Administration: Paradigms of Leadership
Caring has a history of being central to nursing and has long been held to be an essential component of the clinical practice of nurses involved in direct patient care activities. While nurse administrators have been ... -
Clinical Decision-making Among Nursing Students: An Interpretive Study
Clinical decision making has been identified as one of the most important contributions made by the professional nurse in the care of patients. Yet as a discipline, we continue to question what factors influence the ... -
Compassion fatigue among U.S. military RNs post overseas deployment
Purpose: Describe the meaning of compassion fatigue (CF) as experienced by the U.S. military registered nurse (RN) post-deployment from Iraq and Afghanistan. Background: CF is characterized by deep emotional and physical ... -
Contentment in “Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey through Autism”: A humanbecoming hermeneutic study
Contentment is a universally lived experience that is inexplicably intertwined with health and quality of life. The aims of this humanbecoming hermeneutic study were to identify the essence of the experience of contentment, ... -
Contextual factors influencing the acute care registered nurse's response to clinical alarms
Nurses are faced with a multitude of clinical alarms on a daily basis. There is an inherent expectation that upon hearing an alarm the nurse will immediately respond to assess the situation and initiate appropriate action ... -
The cultivation and practice of spiritual care expertise in an inpatient palliative care setting
Caregivers involved in palliative care seek to understand problems and challenges at end of life through research to determine the best care for patients and their families. Spiritual care is a key component of quality end ... -
Current perspectives on the Gestalt of nursing curricula
This research study aimed to investigate the current gestalt of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) curricula in the United States. Presently there is an emphasis in nursing education on the practice–education gap in ... -
Deciding to Withhold/Withdraw Life-sustaining Treatments from Incompetent Adults Following Unanticipated, Catastrophic illnesses: A Phenomenological Study of Surrogate Decision Makers' Experiences
The purpose of this study was to describe the experience and meaning of having made a decision to withhold and/or withdraw life-sustaining treatments from an adult who was rendered incompetent following an unanticipated, ... -
The Embodied Situations Associated With Attacks of Acute Dyspnea Symptoms in COPD Patients
This study aimed to investigate embodied situations associated with attacks of acute dyspnea symptoms in patients with moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and it was conducted by the phenomenological ... -
Emerging Adults' Lived Experience of Perinatally Acquired Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Background: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a global problem, infecting over 70 million people worldwide. However, HIV has changed from being a terminal disease to a ... -
Evidence-based practice preparation in nursing education: Recent BSN graduates and their experience with applying evidence-based practice
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the level of knowledge of evidence-based practice (EBP) among registered nurses (RNs) who have joined the profession within the last 5 years. The Promoting Action ... -
Examining health-related decision making patterns of African Americans with coronary heart disease: A hermeneutic phenomenological study
The purpose of this study was to explore the themes that affected the day-to-day health-related decision making of African Americans managing coronary heart disease (CHD). Understanding the lived experience of African ... -
The experience of African students studying nursing in the United States in relation to their use of critical thinking
This qualitative study explores the critical thinking experiences of African nursing students enrolled in several universities in the U.S. Using a semi-structured interview approach, twelve African students discussed their ... -
The experience of being discharged from hospice alive as perceived by patients, their spouses, and adult children
Approximately 1.56 million patients received hospice care in 2009, and 243,000 individuals were discharged alive (NHPCO, 2010). There is a paucity of research describing the experiences of individuals discharged from hospice ... -
The Experience of Chief Nurses in Military Operations Other Than War
The purpose of this research was to describe the experience of chief nurses in military operations other than war. The study is significant to the profession because nurses will continue to provide care in humanitarian ... -
The Experience of Cognitive Change in Women with Breast Cancer Following Chemotherapy
Background: Change in cognitive function is one side effect of chemotherapy that has been reported in some breast cancer survivors. Alarming reports indicate that between 16 to 50 percent of women receiving chemotherapy ... -
The Experience of Decision-making Among Telephone Advice/Triage Nurses
The role of the telephone advice/triage nurse is both complex and demanding. All decisions are made while assessing patients without seeing or touching patients. In addition, the role is often developed to decrease health ...
