Nursing, healing and spirituality.

The premise of this article is that nurses are healers, primarily through the caring relationships they form with patients. Caring calls out an individual's inner strengths. These strengths include spiritual resources which support integration or wholeness of body, mind and spirit.

It hurts most around the heart: a phenomenological exploration of women's anger.

Women's anger experience has been poorly understood and insufficiently researched. Yet the emotion of anger is vitally important to women's physical and mental health, and to the quality of their relationships. This phenomenological study was undertaken as an expansion and extension of the Women's Anger Study, the first large survey of the genesis, manifestations and correlates of anger in American women.

A phenomenological description of the experience of spiritual distress.

The purpose of this study was to describe the phenomenon of spiritual distress in order to clarify the nursing diagnosis of spiritual distress and to evaluate its defining characteristics. Phenomenological interview procedures were used. Ten participants were asked to describe a time in their life when they had been concerned about the meaning of life, death, and/or their beliefs (the major defining characteristics of this nursing diagnosis).