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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 ...
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, ...
Salvaging Self: A Grounded Theory Study of Pregnancy on Crack Cocaine
To explore the experiences and concerns of pregnant women who use crack cocaine, 60 pregnant and postpartum women who had used crack cocaine an average of at least once weekly during pregnancy were recruited in a West Coast ...
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 Experience of Families When a Child is Diagnosed with Cancer with a Favorable Diagnosis
The major objective of this longitudinal, descriptive study was to describe the family transition to living with childhood cancer, from the family's point of view, when a child is diagnosed with cancer with a favorable ...
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 ...
Family Experiences with Long-term Childhood Technology Dependence: An Interpretive Interactionist Approach
Increased numbers of children who are technology-dependent are now being cared for at home by parents and other caregivers. However, there is inadequate understanding of the daily lives of families who care for ...
Being-With Dying: Tacit Wisdom Embedded in the Experiences of Nurses Who Attend to Dying
(2017-11-27)
Dying persons and their family members have needs that are notably unidentified and unmet in the United States today. This is in large part due to health professionals' being unprepared to provide end of life care that ...
Let the Circle be Unbroken: Health of Elderly Southern Appalachian Widows
The purpose of this study was to facilitate discovery and description of the health experience from the perspective of elderly Appalachian widows. The concepts of health, health beliefs, and health practices were explored ...
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 ...