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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Folklore as a Health Patterning Modality
The lived experience of folklore practices as a health patterning modality may have meaning for nursing science. This hermeneutic phenomenological qualitative study was designed to uncover and understand the meaning and ... -
Influences of Nutritional Food Label Understanding on African American Women with Obesity
Nutritional food label understanding (NFLU) in African American Women (AAW) is a philosophy that addresses obesity. Public health efforts have implemented nutritional and caloric information to packaged and restaurant foods ... -
Joining the Academic Community: The Lived Experiences of New Teachers in Nursing Education
Contemporary academic communities in nursing are experiencing an increasing number of new teachers, particularly those who teach part-time, at the same time that they are experiencing a growing shortage of faculty members ... -
Light in the Midst of Darkness: Lived Experiences of Cancer Warriors
Employing a qualitative approach about the lived experiences of cancer warriors, this paper delved into the perceptions of pediatric cancer patients towards cancer, their coping mechanisms, changes that they experienced ... -
The Lived Experience of Breastfeeding for Women with Perinatal Depression
Exclusive breastfeeding for at least 6 months provides numerous infant and maternal benefits. Yet mothers with risk factors, such as lower education, lower socioeconomic status, younger maternal age, planned cesarean birth, ... -
The Lived Experience of Nursing Students in Caring for Suffering Individuals: A Phenomenological Analysis
The purpose of this study was to illuminate the lived experience of nursing students in caring for individuals who were suffering. A phenomenological approach was utilized consisting of four iterative steps: purposive ... -
Masters in Nursing Students' Experiences as a Member of a Virtual Classroom on the Internet
There is a growing demand for masters prepared nurses to meet the health care needs of the population. However, adult students find that multiple role responsibilities make it difficult to participate in the leisurely pace ... -
The Meaning of Health Among Midlife Russian-speaking Women in the United States
This study sought to explore the meaning of health among midlife Russian-speaking women from the Former Soviet Union. A hermeneutic, phenomenologic, descriptive and interpretive design following the Utrecht School was used. ... -
The Meaning of Stressful Life Experiences as Described by Nine to Eleven-year-old Children: A Phenomenological Study
The preponderance of literature regarding stress and children has been based on adults' perceptions of how children view stressful life experiences. A qualitative study using the phenomenological method was conducted to ... -
A Mobile Phone HIV Medication Adherence Intervention: Care4Today Mobile Health Manager
This paper presents the findings of a qualitative study designed to describe the experience of HIV medication adherence using a mobile phone application. For the purpose of this qualitative study, nine semi-structured focus ... -
The Moral Certainty or Uncertainty of Nurses Regarding End-of-Life Treatment Decisions
Much has been written about the importance of decision-making in nursing ethics, but few research studies have been completed which examine nurses' ethical decision-making. In order to address this absence of research, two ... -
The Nature of Power Experienced by Individuals Manifesting Patterning Labeled Schizophrenic: An Investigation of the Principle of Helicy
The nature of power experienced by individuals labeled 'chronic schizophrenic' was ascertained through hermeneutic analysis and further validated through multiple triangulation. The central themes that emerged from text ... -
Parent Transition from the Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) to Home
The purpose of this descriptive study was to describe parental responses to caring for infants in the home following their infant's discharge from the Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The study's methodological design ... -
The Personal Experience of Developing Sexuality in Middle Childhood
The purpose of this study was to investigate the personal experience of developing sexuality in middle childhood. Subjects were twenty-four children, twelve boys and twelve girls, between the ages of 6 and 9 obtained through ... -
Public Policy Regarding Infant Mortality: Rhetorical Criticism of the Mass Media
Nurses interested in impacting the formation of policy must understand the multiple factors which influence the process. Mass communication is one important factor because it influences the creation and transmission of ...