Perspectives of Chinese nephrology nurses on discussing sexual dysfunction with patients receiving haemodialysis: A qualitative study.

Background: The study underscores the crucial yet often neglected issue of sexual dysfunction in haemodialysis patients. Despite nephrology nurses'close relationships with patients, there is a significant communication gap on this topic. In China, limited research highlights the need for further study.

Aesthetics in Nursing Practice as Experienced by Children During Hospitalization in Philippines: A Phenomenological Study.

This study aimed to describe the meaning of aesthetics in nursing practice as experienced by children during hospitalization. A hermeneutic phenomenological approach was used. Fifteen children who met the inclusion criteria participated in the study conducted from June to August 2021.

A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study of Aesthetics in Nursing Practice Among Hospitalized Cancer Patients in Nepal.

Aesthetics is the art of nursing that is expressive, subjective, and visible in the act of caring in nursing practice. Aesthetics in nursing practice satisfies holistic needs and achieves the quality of whole-person care. The aim of this study is to describe the meanings of the lived experiences of cancer patients in terms of receiving care from the perspective of aesthetics in nursing practice.

Attitude toward care of the dying and practice of peaceful end-of-life care in community hospitals in China.

Aim: To evaluate nurses' attitude toward caring for dying patients, their practice of peaceful end-of-life care in community hospitals, and the association between these two variables.

Background: Community hospitals play an important role in the peaceful end-of-life care. For nurses, one of the key points of offering high-level care is to improve attitude.

Aesthetics in nursing practice as experienced by nurses in Indonesia: A phenomenological study.

Background: While aesthetics in nursing practice brings out the beauty in nursing, studies regarding how aesthetics are implemented in practice are lacking.

Objective: To describe the meanings of aesthetics in nursing practice experienced by nurses in Indonesia.

Methods: This qualitative study employed a hermeneutic phenomenological approach based on Gadamerian philosophy.

Predictors of nurses' caring practice for critically ill patients in critical technological environments: A cross-sectional survey study.

Background: Caring practice for critically ill patients refers to the actions/behaviors/performance of nurses while caring for critically ill adult patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). Although the caring practice is vital in ICUs and complex due to the multitude of available technologies, research on ICU nurses' caring practice and its predictive factors are lacking.

Objective: This study aimed to explore the level of nurses' caring practice for critically ill patients in critical technological environments in China and its predictors.

Aesthetic expressions as data in researching the lived-world of children with advanced cancer.

Background: Understanding the true world of children needs a special method. Using aesthetic expressions through artworks with reflections assists nurse researchers in exploring children's feelings, thoughts, and behaviors in relation to their health and well-being.

Objective: This article focuses on the use of aesthetic expressions as innovative data sources in a study of the lived worlds of children experiencing advanced cancer.

Aesthetics in Nursing Practice for Cancer Patients as Experienced by Nurses in Nepal: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study.

Background: Aesthetics in nursing practice address creating beautiful, meaningful, desirable, and satisfying experiences for both the nurse and the patient. However, little is known about aesthetics in nursing practice.

Objective: The aim of this study was to describe the lived experiences of nurses who provide aesthetically pleasant care in nursing practice for cancer patients.

Aesthetic expression of caring in nursing among Japanese undergraduate nursing students.

Background: Caring is the heart of nursing. However, not many understand the significance of caring in nursing from the perspectives of undergraduate nursing students, especially in Japan.

Aim: To describe caring in nursing among Japanese nursing students as learned and communicated through their aesthetic expressions.

Aesthetic Expressions of the Life-World of Filipino School-Age Children with Advanced Cancer.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to describe the meanings of the life-world of school-age children with advanced cancer through aesthetic expression.

Data Sources: Drawing, writing, and interviewing data from 10 school-age children with advanced cancer living in Negros Island, Philippines, who met the inclusion criteria of the study.

Conclusion: Five major thematic categories structured the participants' existential life-worlds with advanced cancer and were reflected within five lived-worlds as follows: lived body, poor body conditions but strong mind; lived relation, unlike the others; lived time, being in present while waiting for normal life; lived space, certain places of living and caring; and lived thing, supportive living by technology.

Grief reactions and coping strategies of Muslim nurses dealing with death.

Background: An intensive care unit (ICU) features high mortality rates. Witnessing subsequent deaths may affect nurses psychologically and spiritually. Islam has an influence on Muslims' life and death.

The lived experience of family caregivers caring for patients dependent on life-sustaining technologies.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe the meaning of the lived experience of family caregivers caring for their loved ones who were dependent upon life-sustaining technologies while in the hospital.

Methods: This study followed van Manen's hermeneutic phenomenological approach to generate and analyze data to describe the experience of ten family caregivers who met the following inclusion criteria: a family member who participated actively in caring for the loved one who was dependent upon technologies for human care. Data were collected using individual in-depth interviews.

Effect of Nursing Intervention Integrating an Islamic Praying Program on Labor Pain and Pain Behaviors in Primiparous Muslim Women.

Background: Labor pain has always been a priority issue for primiparous women. Pain behaviors appear as a response to labor pain. This study aimed at examining the effect of nursing interventions integrating an Islamic praying (NIIIP) program on labor pain and pain behavior.

Lived Experience of Grieving of Thai Buddhist Husbands Who Had Lost Their Wives From Critical Illness.

Purpose: To describe the meanings of the lived experiences of grieving of Thai Buddhist husbands who had lost their wives from critical illnesses.

Design: Hermeneutic phenomenological approach using van Manen's concepts. Seven husbands from southern Thailand who met the inclusion criteria participated in the study.

Lived experiences of grief of Muslim nurses caring for patients who died in an intensive care unit: A phenomenological study.

Objective: To describe the meaning of the lived experiences of grief of Muslim nurses caring for patients who died in an intensive care unit.

Methodology: Gadamerian philosophy was used to underpin the hermeneutic phenomenological approach followed to analyse and interpret the lived experiences of nurses who cared for patients who died in intensive care units. Fourteen nurses met the inclusion criteria.

Lived experiences of intensive care nurses in caring for critically ill patients.

Background: Caring for critically ill patients requires competent nurses to help save and secure the lives of patients, using technological developments while maintaining humanistic care. Nepal is a developing country with limited advanced technologies and resources. It is important to understand nursing care for critically ill patients under these shortages.

Lived experience of caring for dying patients in emergency room.

Background: Dying often occurs in hospitals and frequently in emergency rooms. Understanding caring for critical and dying patients is necessary for quality nursing.

Purpose: This study described the meaning of nurses' lived experience of caring for critical and dying patients in the emergency rooms.

Thai nursing students' experiences when attending real life situations involving cardiac life support: A Phenomenological study.

Background: During the last few years, manikin simulations have been used for cardiac life support training procedures in medical and nursing education. However, some nursing students have experienced attending real events involving cardiac life support during their clinical practice.

Objective: This study aims to describe the meaning of experience of Thai nursing students when attending real situations of cardiac life support.

Lived experience of patients being cared for in ICUs in Southern Thailand.

Background: Technologies in ICUs are increasingly saving human lives. The challenge for nursing in ICUs is to use technologies competently in order to know patients more fully within the harmonized view of technology, nursing and human care.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe the meaning of the experiences of patients who were dependent on technologies while being cared for in ICUs.

Thai Buddhist families' perspective of a peaceful death in ICUs.

Aim: To describe the concept of a peaceful death in intensive care units (ICUs) from the perspective of Thai Buddhist family members.

Methods: This descriptive qualitative study was based on data generated from individual in-depth interviews of nine Thai Buddhist family members from the southern region of Thailand whose loved ones died in adult ICUs. Colaizzi's phenomenological approach was used to analyse the data.

Thai nurses' experience of caring for persons who had a peaceful death in intensive care units.

This phenomenological study describes the lived experience of caring for persons who had a peaceful death in the intensive care units. Ten intensive care nurses in south Thailand participated in individual interviews. Van Manen's approach was utilized to synthesize data.

Thai Buddhists' experiences caring for family members who died a peaceful death in intensive care.

Aim: To describe the meaning of Thai Buddhists' lived experiences caring for family members who died a peaceful death in intensive care units.

Methods: The study made use of hermeneutic phenomenology. The participants were nine family caregivers from the southern Thailand region.

Knowing the occasion of a peaceful death in intensive care units in Thailand.

The purpose of this study was to describe how nurses know the occasion of a peaceful death. The data were generated from individual in-depth interviews with ten nurses who practised in adult intensive care units in the southern region of Thailand. Using a content analysis method, four processes of knowing the occasion of a peaceful death were isolated.

Thai nurses' experience of caring for persons with life-sustaining technologies in intensive care settings: a phenomenological study.

Technological competency as caring in nursing is grounded in the viewpoint that health care technologies are used to know persons. This study described the experiences of eight Thai nurses caring for persons with life-sustaining technologies in adult intensive care settings. Using individual semi-structured interviews, Van Manen's hermeneutic phenomenological approach was used to analyse the data.

Thai Buddhist intensive care unit nurses' perspective of a peaceful death: an empirical study.

Aim: To describe the concept of a peaceful death from Thai Buddhist intensive care unit (ICU) nurses' perspectives.

Method: A descriptive qualitative study of data generated from individual in-depth interviews of ten intensive care nurses who practiced in adult ICUs in the southern region of Thailand. Content analysis was used to analyse the data.