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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 …
The Lived Experience Of Recovery Following Transoral Robotic Surgery (Tors) For Head And Neck Cancer, Katharine Mahalik
The Lived Experience Of Recovery Following Transoral Robotic Surgery (Tors) For Head And Neck Cancer, Katharine Mahalik
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Ongoing advances in minimally invasive surgical techniques, such as transoral robotic surgery (TORS), has enabled select patients with head and neck cancer to receive treatment that results in less disfigurement and dysfunction compared with traditional approaches. While TORS research has focused mainly on functional surgical outcomes, a need exists to understand recovery following TORS from the patient perspective. A hermeneutic phenomenological approach was used to recruit patients who had recently undergone TORS at a major academic health system in northeastern US. Data were collected using audio-recorded telephone interviews and field notes and analyzed concurrently. Participants included 17 HNCS (12 …