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The lived experience of family caregivers caring for patients dependent on life-sustaining technologies

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to describe the meaning of the lived experience of family caregivers caring for their loved ones who were dependent upon life-sustaining technologies while in the hospital. METHODS: This study followed van Manen's hermeneutic phenomenological approach to g...

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Autores principales: Kongsuwan, Waraporn, Borvornluck, Pongpaka, Locsin, Rozzano C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Chinese Nursing Association 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6626285/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31406849
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnss.2018.09.011
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author Kongsuwan, Waraporn
Borvornluck, Pongpaka
Locsin, Rozzano C.
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description PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to describe the meaning of the lived experience of family caregivers caring for their loved ones who were dependent upon life-sustaining technologies while in the hospital. METHODS: This study followed van Manen's hermeneutic phenomenological approach to generate and analyze data to describe the experience of ten family caregivers who met the following inclusion criteria: a family member who participated actively in caring for the loved one who was dependent upon technologies for human care. Data were collected using individual in-depth interviews. The interview transcriptions were analyzed using van Manen's phenomenological approach, while Lincoln and Guba's criteria were used to establish trustworthiness of the study. FINDINGS: Four thematic categories structured the meaning of the experience: Being an invisible person; supporting patients' wholeness; struggling to trust technologies for human care; and living in uncertainty. These thematic categories were reflective of Van Manen's four lived worlds of body, relation, space, and time. CONCLUSION: Understanding the experience of family caregivers challenges nurses to express their technological competencies in caring more fully in their human care. Locsin's theory of Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing was used to explain and describe the meaning of the experiences of family caregivers caring for patients who were dependent upon technologies for human care, and foster nursing practice as caring in nursing.
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spelling pubmed-66262852019-08-12 The lived experience of family caregivers caring for patients dependent on life-sustaining technologies Kongsuwan, Waraporn Borvornluck, Pongpaka Locsin, Rozzano C. Int J Nurs Sci Original Article PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to describe the meaning of the lived experience of family caregivers caring for their loved ones who were dependent upon life-sustaining technologies while in the hospital. METHODS: This study followed van Manen's hermeneutic phenomenological approach to generate and analyze data to describe the experience of ten family caregivers who met the following inclusion criteria: a family member who participated actively in caring for the loved one who was dependent upon technologies for human care. Data were collected using individual in-depth interviews. The interview transcriptions were analyzed using van Manen's phenomenological approach, while Lincoln and Guba's criteria were used to establish trustworthiness of the study. FINDINGS: Four thematic categories structured the meaning of the experience: Being an invisible person; supporting patients' wholeness; struggling to trust technologies for human care; and living in uncertainty. These thematic categories were reflective of Van Manen's four lived worlds of body, relation, space, and time. CONCLUSION: Understanding the experience of family caregivers challenges nurses to express their technological competencies in caring more fully in their human care. Locsin's theory of Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing was used to explain and describe the meaning of the experiences of family caregivers caring for patients who were dependent upon technologies for human care, and foster nursing practice as caring in nursing. Chinese Nursing Association 2018-09-22 /pmc/articles/PMC6626285/ /pubmed/31406849 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnss.2018.09.011 Text en © 2018 Chinese Nursing Association. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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