The aim of this study is to reveal the personal reputation perceptions academic staff and determinants concept reputation, with subgoals determining what academics understand by factors that affect their revealing issues cause damaging among positive negative results. This was conducted applying phenomenological design, which one qualitative research designs. participants were determined using ...

AIM To discuss interpretations of the lived experience of mentoring based on Heidegger's concept of dasein. The focus is on one main theme identified in an in-depth study of the lived experience of nurses mentoring students in their workplace: a world of hope for the nursing profession. BACKGROUND This article focuses on dasein's 'existence', which is temporally aligned with having a future. ...

PURPOSE Weight loss and eating problems are common in cancer and have a profound effect on quality of life. They are symptoms of cancer cachexia syndrome. This paper examines interdependency between advanced cancer patient and family carer experience of weight- and eating-related problems, leading to proposition of how weight- and eating-related distress might be alleviated in both patients and...

DARBYSHIRE P. (1994) Skilled expert practice: is it 'all in the mind'? A response to English's critique of Benner's novice to expert model In a recent critique of the work of Patricia Benner in relation to expertise, skilled intuitive grasp and the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition, English (Journal of Advanced Nursing 1993, vol. 18, pp. 387-393) uses the tenets of positivism and cognitive psy...

Advocators of knowledge management (KM) have believed that through the power of information technology (IT), the success of KM would be automatic. Yet the investment in various KM systems in business has resulted in an “empty library” or an “expensive and useless information junkyard.” In exploring the insights of this phenomenon, we proffered that KS practice in respect to knowledge management...

OBJECTIVE Dementia is a terminal illness, and family caregivers play a vital role in providing end-of-life care to their relative. The present study begins to address the paucity of research regarding end-of-life caregiving experience with dementia. METHOD This study utilized Munhall's methodology for interpretive phenomenology. Seven women and four men were interviewed two to three times wit...

Objectives. To explore the lived experience of youth, caregivers, and prescribers with antipsychotic medications. Design. We conducted a qualitative interpretive phenomenology study. Youth aged 11 to 25 with recent experience taking antipsychotics, the caregivers of youth taking antipsychotics, and the prescribers of antipsychotics were recruited. Subjects. Eighteen youth, 10 caregivers (parent...

INTRODUCTION General practitioners (GPs) play an important role in the management of patients who are overweight or obese. Previous research suggests that GPs' physical characteristics may influence patients' perceptions of health care received during consultations, mediating the likelihood of patients following health advice provided by GPs. This study aimed to explore patients' perceptions of...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the variations in and intentions of wishes to die (WTD) of palliative care cancer patients. METHODS Thirty terminally ill cancer patients, their caregivers and relatives in a hospice, an oncology palliative care ward of a general hospital, and an outpatient palliative care service. 116 semistructured qualitative interviews analyzed by a combined approach using Grounde...