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9780415207829

Nursing and The Experience of Illness: Phenomenology in Practice

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415207829

  • ISBN10:

    0415207827

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-06-28
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Nursing and the Experience of Illness encourages nurses to reflect on the experience of their patients, in order to improve their practice and to develop an individualised approach to care. Vivid case studies present real nursing encounters and offer a user-friendly model for independent research by the reader.This accessible introduction to phenomenology for nurses explains what has become one of the most widely used qualitative research methods within healthcare and covers topics including:*phenomenology in nursing*critical illness and intensive care*breast cancer and mastectomy*living with schizophrenia.Building on the work of key nursing theorist Patricia Benner, this readable way in to qualitative research in nursing will be suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate nursing students.

Table of Contents

Foreword v
Max van Manen
Contributors xi
Acknowledgements xii
Introduction xiii
Phenomenology and nursing
1(16)
Jo Ann Walton
Irena Madjar
The pathic nature of inquiry and nursing
17(19)
Max van Manen
On living with chronic leg ulcers
36(21)
Marian Bland
On confronting life and death
57(20)
Vicki Parker
On surviving breast cancer and mastectomy
77(21)
Kyung-Rim Shin
On living with schizophrenia
98(25)
Jo Ann Walton
On living with chronic pain
123(22)
Ann O'Loughlin
On inflicting and relieving pain
145(25)
Irena Madjar
On caring and being cared for
170(22)
Payom Euswas
Norma Chick
Epilogue
189(3)
Irena Madjar
Jo Ann Walton
Index 192

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