M.Cur. (Intensive Care Nursing) / The problem of intensive care nurses leaving the profession due to non-conducive working environments and uncompetitive conditions of employment is becoming more alarming and is therefore as relevant as ever. The researcher is concerned about the quality of nurse-awareness nurses create in order to practice quality nurse care. Confusion among nurses about their professional rights and responsibilities adds fuel to the fire. The management of health care services is at times not sensitive to the needs of nurses, and nurses are not always recognized for their inherent professional worth. In the adult intensive care unit at which the researcher practices as unit manager she perceived her colleagues to be experiencing some sort of emotional and spiritual discomfort in going about their daily activities. As the researcher felt responsible for the well-being of the staff in the unit she decided to investigate the phenomenon via a formal research study. The objectives of the study were two-fold: Firstly to explore and describe the registered nurse's experience of nursing in the intensive care unit and then to use the information obtained to describe guidelines for the compilation of a support programme for the nurses nursing in the unit The research questions that were generated are: How do registered nurses in the intensive care unit experience nursing there and how can the information be utilized to describe guidelines to support these nurses? The researcher used an exploratory, descriptive, contextual and phenomenological qualitative design to answer these research questions. Phenomenological interviews were conducted with five interviewees who had been possessively selected.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uj/uj:12246 |
| Date | 10 September 2014 |
| Creators | Pope, Eloise |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | University of Johannesburg |
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