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Doubting her ability to assume the new manager's role in a specialty unit, the author reflects upon her first day of hospital orientation. The monotony of the day is interrupted by the admission of a patient with a traumatic burn injury. The new manager finds herself perplexed about what to do. Feeling at a loss and somewhat confused about her role as a nurse and manager, she delves into her soul and realizes that her place on the burn team has nothing to do with the type of emergency situation before her. Suddenly, she identifies that her feelings of fear and uncertainty are also experienced by people in their new role as patients. She recognizes that her place stems from the very essence of being a nurse. She wants to care. Basing her actions on her feelings, the nurse is able to comfort a man who is dying. She does not want him to feel lonely and afraid regardless of his imminent death. Clinically, she knows the team's life-saving efforts will be unsuccessful, yet her efforts in caring based on her lived experience of being the “newcomer” enable her to accept the challenge of meeting the needs of her patient and at the same time regain her confidence

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1995

数据来源: OVID

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The article attempts to capture some of the author's experience with the diagnosis and subsequent treatment of her son's cancer. David was 15 when he was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma of the left femur. He underwent chemotherapy within 3 weeks of the diagnosis, having undergone port insertion, a needle biopsy of the tumor, and numerous other diagnostic procedures. After four chemotherapy treatments and a series of radiation treatments, David underwent an 8-hour operation to reconstruct the left femur. Bank bone was used as well as the fibula from his lower leg and iliac crest bone from the same side. David continued to be on chemotherapy treatments for just under 2 more years. As a result of this experience, the author's priorities, ways of being with clients, relationships with family members and friends, and outlook on life have all been affected. She has a new appreciation of all that a family goes through when a loved one is in crisis and how it affects the entire family and network of friends

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1995

数据来源: OVID

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This article includes phenomenologic poetry to convey the author's lived experience of being with her father while he was dying

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1995

数据来源: OVID

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The article describes a study designed to explore the processes of sibling bereavement and to compare children's impressions with those of their parents. The Institute of Medicine model was used as a sensitizing framework for the study. Constant comparative technique was used to analyze data from a pilot study of 18 bereaved siblings ages 4 to 23 years. Sadness was the most common reaction after sibling death. Mothers were most often cited as being helpful; friends and fathers were also helpful. People who were not actively supportive were not helpful. Many children described feeling protective of their parents, and several children described personal growth.

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1995

数据来源: OVID

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Adolescent resilience after parental death in childhood and its relationship to attachment and coping were examined in this cross-sectional correlational study. Resilience was operationalized as social competence, global self-worth, and health. Sixty-two adolescents were interviewed using self-report instruments. Pearson product moment correlations and multiple regression analyses were used to test five hypotheses. Three hypotheses were partially supported in that adaptive coping was a significant predictor of the measures of resilience. Correlations were significant between attachment and coping and between attachment and health. All adolescents shared observations about their experiences

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1995

数据来源: OVID

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In this case study, the narrative of a young mother who survived multiple losses and excruciating and prolonged pain in the treatment of burns is explored to develop and contrast the concepts of enduring and suffering. Joan survived an explosion that resulted in the death of her three children, disfiguring thermal injuries, the loss of her husband through divorce, and, as a consequence, the loss of her home, church, and community. Strategies of enduring—surviving the immediate impact of trauma, the long-term medical treatment and rehabilitation, and social adjustment—are described and contrasted with the experience of suffering. The article describes how Joan ultimately reformulated an acceptable sense of self and of the future. Her capacity to endure pervaded both physical and emotional dimensions of healing. Nursing care that did not assist her to endure, and therefore increased her suffering, and care that was perceived to be comforting, and therefore enhanced her ability to endure and reduced her suffering, are described

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1995

数据来源: OVID

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The menopausal transition may be regarded as a developmental stage in the life cycle during which women gradually adapt to biologic, social, psychologic, and spiritual changes that accompany ovarian decline and menstrual cessation. Although the biomedical view stresses atrophic and degenerative changes, a developmental and holistic perspective stresses the individuality, totality, and complexity of responses to this experience. Sensitive care during the menopausal transition may enable women to accept the inevitable changes and losses and recognize qualities and capabilities that can unfold. The author is a nurse specialist in women's health care who draws from her research and clinical practice to provide illustrations for her perspective

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1995

数据来源: OVID

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Six women with chronic illness engaged in multiple conversations with the investigator to help her understand what it is like to live with chronic illness. Phenomenologic writing and reflection were used to analyze the data. The story is guided by an integrating theme: Living in paradox circumscribes one's loss while enabling one to embrace new discoveries of self in the life world through unfolding awareness

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1995

数据来源: OVID

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The literature on family caregiving has focused primarily on caregiver burden and demographic characteristics of caregiver groups. Little has been written about the existential aspects of caring for an aging relative. The article focuses on the meaning of the experience as expressed by family caregivers to elderly relatives and the role this meaning plays in enabling the family member to remain in the caregiving role. The caregiving passage includes families facing loss, identifying turning points, rediscovering a sense of self, and experiencing feelings of satisfaction and enhanced self-worth

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1995

数据来源: OVID

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1995

数据来源: OVID