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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Experience of Puerto Rican Families Who Bring Their Children to the Emergency Department for Asthma Care
The aim of the study was to describe the experience of Puerto Rican families who brought their child to the emergency department (ED) for asthma care. Asthma is the most common chronic pediatric disease, affecting 6.3 ... -
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 ... -
An Investigation of Suffering Through the Examination of the Lived Experiences of Hospice Patients
Although there is a historical and philosophical link between nursing and the suffering of people, a review of literature revealed that there are only a limited number of articles treating suffering conceptually or ... -
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 ... -
The Journey Back to Myself: Returning to Baseline Functioning Post-Concussion, a Phenomenological Study
Pilot Phenomenological study concerning the experience of returning to baseline following concussion. Thoughts and emotions of students regarding the healing process and feelings of frustration regarding lack of available ... -
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 Critically Ill Patients in Isolation Rooms: Surviving Isolation
Critically ill patients with infectious diseases have dramatically increased in prevalence over the last few years. Patients suffer physically, psychologically and socially during staying in isolation settings. This session ... -
The Lived Experience of DNPs Returning to School in Pursuit of a PhD in Nursing
Unless we as nurses understand the essence of practicing DNP-prepared nurses actively pursuing the PhD in nursing, nursing will remain in the unknowing of the perspective of having clinical nurses practicing as nurse scientists.