Thesis (M.S.)--Catholic University of America. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (MA)--University of Chicago. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--Catholic University of America. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis--University of California, San Francisco. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 184-209).

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / 2031-01-01

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / 2031-01-01

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Queensland, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--St. Louis University, 1963. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 289-313).

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Texas, 1956. / Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Bibliography: leaves 78-79.

M.Cur. (Intensive General Nursing) / The intensive care unit, as experienced by the patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery, may have a positive or negative effect on the facilitation of health. This study is an attempt to identify the obstacles as experienced by the patients, in order to help the professional nurse to facilitate health. The objectives of this study: • • to explore and describe the experience of the coronary artery bypass patient in the intensive care unit, to be able to identify obstacles which may impair their health; and to set guidelines for improving the environment. in order to help facilitate health. The phenomenological method of interviewing was used. Interviews were conducted with seven participants. Conclusions were made after analysing the interviews, and theoretical justifications of tho conclusions were found in the literature. The results showed that the lack of guidance was the most important obstacle. and therefore guidelines for the professional nurse in the cardic-thoracic unit were proposed. The goal of these guidelines is to improve the health of the coronary artery bypass patient by improving the intensive care unit environment. Recommendations for practice, nursing education and further research were made.