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Perioperative Nurses' Perceptions of Caring Practices
Author(s) -
McNamara Sharon A.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
aorn journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1878-0369
pISSN - 0001-2092
DOI - 10.1016/s0001-2092(06)63890-8
Subject(s) - watson , perioperative nursing , unconscious mind , qualitative research , perioperative , nursing , perception , psychology , medicine , sociology , anesthesia , computer science , social science , neuroscience , natural language processing , psychoanalysis
This study was designed to determine how caring is practiced in perioperative nursing. The theory of nursing by M. Jean Watson, RN, PhD, FAAN, provided the conceptual framework for the study. The researcher used a qualitative, descriptive methodology to analyze data collected in audiotaped interviews with five perioperative nurses and used standard qualitative research procedures for transcribing and analyzing the interview data. The five study participants identified their perceptions of caring behaviors with conscious and unconscious patients in the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative periods. They described the essential structure of wring as the establishment of a human care relationship and provision of a supportive, protective, and/or corrective psychological, physical, and spiritual environment. A0RN J 61 (Feb 1995) 377–388.