Date of Award
1996
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Coffman, Sherrilyn
Abstract
This qualitative study of the phenomenon of nurse providing care to a client that the nurse does not like or determines to be unpopular was conducted with five professional nurses, who had experienced the phenomenon. Phenomenological method guided the inquiry through the narrative descriptions, from which essential descriptive themes of secrecy, avoidance, internalized conflict, specialness, and unfinishedness were uncovered and revealed by dwelling with the material. The implications for nursing education, nursing practice and nursing research are discussed.
Extent
166 p.
Recommended Citation
Little, Daniel James, "Temporary is avoidance, forever is a lobotomy: Nurses' silence on unpopular patients" (1996). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999. 1027.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_4/1027
Identifier
FADT15258
Comments
Thesis (M.S.N.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1996.|Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.S.N.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1996.