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ECU School of Nursing thesis
ECU School of Nursing thesis. UNAUTHORIZED
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| Summary |
The phenomenon of caring has been widely addressed and studied in the practice domain of nursing. Although its significance has been noted, caring in the administration domain of nursing had not, until now, been studied empirically. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to discover and describe caring in the chief nurse officer (CNO) by examining lived experiences of nurse managers (NMs) who report directly to caring CNOs. The data were analyzed using Colaizzi's data analysis method, and the major themes of connectivity, nurturing, and model role execution emerged as common to each description. The caring of the CNOs of this study emerged as a dichotomy of caring nursing process and caring leadership. This description of caring is supportive of empirically developed descriptions of caring in the practice domain of nursing and offers many suggestions for further research. Nursing may quickly avail itself of the new insights provided by the rich detail of the findings, and the description of caring nursing administration may be immediately incorporated into practice by CNOs and NMs. |
| General note | Submitted to the faculty of the School of Nursing. |
| General note | Advisor: Therese G. Lawler |
| Dissertation note | M.S. East Carolina University 1993 |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-107). |
| Genre/form | Academic theses. |
| Genre/form | Academic theses. |
| Genre/form | Thèses et écrits académiques. |
