Biomedical subjects

M E Doona

Publications and source records attributed to M E Doona.

At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed1999

Nursing presence. As real as a milky way bar.

Data sets from three individual studies on nursing judgment were reviewed from a wider perspective. This yielded meanings and phenomena not readily identified in the individual studies, and it was tentatively labeled presence. A hermeneutic study using 10 transcripts from each data set asked: What are the common features of the context of nursing judgment? and, What are the features of the nurses' connection with the patient that contribute to nursing judgment? The analysis yielded six features of nursing presence: uniqueness, connecting with the patient's experience, sensing, going beyond the scientific data, knowing (what will work and when to act), and being with the patient. These features of nursing presence are logical distinctions and serve as ways to grasp the idea of nursing presence.

Cues↗

PubMed1997

Nursing presence: an existential exploration of the concept.

Nursing presence emerged in the nursing literature in the 1960s as a coherent and consistent philosophical term based in the existentialism of Gabriel Marcel and Martin Heidegger, and the religious philosophy of Martin Buber. Since the mid-1980s, however, the precision in definition has deteriorated and presence has accrued multiple meanings, resulting in a weakened sense of the concept. After delineating the etymological and philosophical foundations of nursing presence, the concept is defined. The existential nature of nursing presence is explored and arguments for the indispensability of nursing presence are offered to counter the claims of bottom-line thinking. A definition is offered of nursing presence as an intersubjective encounter between a nurse and a patient in which the nurse encounters the patient as a unique human being in a unique situation and chooses to "spend" herself on his behalf.

Existentialism↗

PubMed1997