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Contemporary Nursing In Rural Appalachia: A Hermeneutic Study, Evelyn Brewer
Contemporary Nursing In Rural Appalachia: A Hermeneutic Study, Evelyn Brewer
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Nurses make up a significant source of direct care for individuals, families, and communities. The problematic distribution of nurses and the potential to lose practicing nurses emphasizes the importance of retention and support of nursing professionals, especially in rural locations. One of the best ways to discover what is important to nurses is to ask and listen to the replies.
The focus for this dissertation is the lived experience of registered nurses in a six-county area in three adjoining states in rural South Central Appalachia. The purpose of this study is to interpret and understand the lived experience of contemporary …