Date of Award
1996
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Beckerman, Anita
Abstract
Jean Watson's Theory of Human Caring and phenomenological methodology are the foundation of this descriptive study of four nurses' experiences of patient advocacy. The "meaning units" or constituents expressed by the participants were synthesized into an integrated whole to embody the experiences of patient advocacy and then objectively described by the researcher. Six components that embody the nurses' experiences are knowledge of self and others, caring commitment, expenditure of self, risks, emotional responses and psychological evolution and mutual affirmation. A better understanding of nurse's experiences of patient advocacy may provide more effective and satisfying nurse-client, nurse-as-person and nurse-as-professional relationships.
Extent
81 p.
Recommended Citation
Lomas, Lynne E., "Patient advocacy: Shared vulnerability and personal integrity" (1996). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999. 983.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_4/983
Identifier
FADT15323
Comments
Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing|Thesis (M.S.N.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1996.|Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing