Date of Award
1994
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Locsin, Rozzano
Abstract
With the current trends in health care, new avenues must be explored in order to contain cost, yet provide for quality care. The Registered Nurse, First Assistant (RNFA) provides a cost effective alternative to another surgeon as surgical assistant. Using Max van Manen's phenomenological method, four RNFAs participated in semistructured audio-taped interviews, in order to explore their lived world experience. Six essences of being an RNFA emerged from the data: being a nurse/nursing; a way of being with others/presence; a way of doing for others; constancy/continualness; experience/knowing; and, a sense of self-completeness. These were interwoven against the lifeworld existentials of relationality, spatiality, temporality, and corporeality. The findings revealed that the RNFA offers uniqueness as nursing and uniqueness as experience.
Extent
110 p.
Recommended Citation
Smith, Jennifer R., "The lived world experience of the Registered Nurse, First Assistant (RNFA)" (1994). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999. 683.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_4/683
Identifier
FADT15100
Comments
Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing|Thesis (M.S.N.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1994.|Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing