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Thesis/Dissertation Information
- Degree Disciplines:
- Nursing
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- Abstract:
- Background: Health care providers including nursing students are faced with daily challenges while they provide care for mothers and family members, especially when these mothers experience perinatal loss. Consequently, nursing students are at an increased risk of suffering psychological and emotional problems, which may affect their clinical performance and influence their decision to pursue nursing as a career. Unfortunately, there has been limited research that addresses baccalaureate nursing students’ clinical experiences while they provided care for mothers who have perinatal loss. Purpose: The core purpose of this phenomenological study was to obtain an in-depth understanding of the lived experiences of baccalaureate nursing students who cared for mothers who have perinatal loss. Methods: The hermeneutic phenomenology of Max van Manen guided this study. A phenomenological methodology with a purposeful sample of baccalaureate nursing students from Broward, Dade, and Palm Beach counties were studied. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and tape-recorded. Journaling of this researcher’s preconceived ideas about the phenomenon or the participants was performed to ensure bracketing. Results: The related themes of supporting, distancing, learning, suffering, and two subthemes of relating and hoping emerged as a total representation of the lived experiences of baccalaureate nursing students who provided care for mothers who have perinatal loss. Conclusion: This phenomenological research study chiefly exposed the challenges and consequences that baccalaureate-nursing students faced while they provided care for mothers who have perinatal loss. The study also revealed that, while students experienced the phenomenon, they identified and assigned meaning, as well as being cognizant about the need for a more active role from clinical professors, to foster effective coping mechanisms.
- Thesis:
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Barry University, 2015.
- Bibliography:
- Includes bibliographical references (leaves 165-175).
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- Barry University
- Holding Location:
- Barry University Archives and Special Collections
- Rights Management:
- Copyright Clarene Brown-King. Permission granted to Barry University to digitize, archive and distribute this item for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires permission of the copyright holder.
- Resource Identifier:
- RG951.B76 2015_BrownKingClarene ( BU-Local )
- Classification:
- RG951.B76 2015 ( lcc )
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