Search for dissertations about: "Phenomenological hermeneutical research"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 swedish dissertations containing the words Phenomenological hermeneutical research.
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1. Interhospital intensive care unit-to-unit transfers : The perspectives of patients, family members, and critical care nurses
Abstract : Aim: The overall aim of the current thesis was to investigate the interhospital intensive care unit-to unit transfer process from the perspective of patients, family members, and critical care nurses. Methods: Study I explores and interprets the observed nature of the patient’s situation during interhospital intensive care unit-to-unit transfers. READ MORE
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2. Tactile touch in intensive care : Nurses' preparation, patients' experiences and the effect on stress parameters
Abstract : Aim: The overall aim of this thesis was to acquire knowledge about whether tactile touch as a complementary method can (i) promote comfort and (ii) reduce stress reactions during care in an intensive care unit (ICU) Method: In Paper I, five nurses with a touch therapist training were interviewed about their experiences of preparation before giving tactile touch in an ICU. To analyse the meaning of preparation as a phenomenon, Giorgi’s descriptive phenomenological approach was used. READ MORE
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3. “Life is for living” : exploring thriving for older people living in nursing homes
Abstract : Background: Demand for formal care in nursing homes has steadily increased in recent decades, prompting calls for exploration of health-promoting and salutogenic concepts that support people not only to survive in older age, but to thrive. The concept of thriving has been described as a holistic experience of place-related well-being resulting from interactions between the person and their lived-environment. READ MORE
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4. Towards Roma Empowerment and Social Inclusion Through Work-Integrated Learning
Abstract : The Roma people are the largest ethnic minority group in the EU and all over, they have been subject to prejudice, stigma, discrimination and oppression. Thus, Roma are the most economically and socially excluded and marginalized group in Europe. READ MORE
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5. Figuring Flesh in Creation : Merleau-Ponty in Conversation with Philosophical Theology
Abstract : This work stages a conversation between the French phenomenological philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty and philosophical theology, specifically as developed along an Augustinian trajectory. As the conversation unfolds, the outline of a new ontology is progressively sketched out – one that seeks to preserve the integrity of human beings as part of the natural world, as well as the integrity of the natural world in the presence of human existence. READ MORE