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Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
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Publisher
Florida Atlantic University
Date Issued
1994
Description
The rising incidence of Acquired Immune Disease Syndrome (AIDS), the increased length of survival for persons living with AIDS (PLWAs), and the associated high costs, suggest that patients will want and need to be cared for at home by family caregivers. If caring is the essence of nursing (Leininger, 1988a; Watson, 1985), then research on caring will expand nurses' understanding of what caring means to the recipient: the patients and their primary caregivers. The purpose of this phenomenological study of primary caregivers of PLWAs was to discover the meaning of their being cared for by the nurse. Colaizzi's (1978) method of data analysis was used. The experience of being cared for by the nurse for caregivers of PLWAs was knowing that they were in a relationship, in this together with a nurse who was there for them; experiencing the nurse's way of being as a competent friend; and being helped to cope with the experience of being a caregiver through specific nursing actions. Implications for practice, education and research are discussed.
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Type
Form
Extent
144 p.
Subject (Topical)
Identifier
15045
Additional Information
Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
Thesis (M.S.N.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1994.
Date Backup
1994
Date Text
1994
Date Issued (EDTF)
1994
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FAU
FAU
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FADT15045
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monographic
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Attributed name: Florida Atlantic University
Person Preferred Name
Stobie, Marjorie Michele.
Graduate College
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144 p.
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The experience of nurses caring for the primary caregivers of persons living with AIDS
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Origin Information
1994
monographic
Boca Raton, Fla.
Florida Atlantic University
Physical Location
Florida Atlantic University Libraries
Place
Boca Raton, Fla.
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Digital Library
Title
The experience of nurses caring for the primary caregivers of persons living with AIDS
Other Title Info
The experience of nurses caring for the primary caregivers of persons living with AIDS