Domain

Title

Author/s

Year

Research

Aim

Sample Size

Strength of the Findings as Evidence

Analysis & Results

Education [28]

Third-Year Nursing Students’ Lived Experience of Caring for the Dying: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Approach

Ransea, K., Ransea, J.,

and Pelkowitzb, M.

(2018)

To explore nursing students’

Lived experience

Of caring for a dying

Patient and their family.

n = 6

This study has provided insight into the experiences of third-year nursing students preparing for the transition to practice as graduate nurses.

Three themes were emerged

Analysis revealed three themes: being caring, unexpectedness in witnessing an expected death and experiencing loss. Students demonstrated family-centered care but recounted unexpectedness in both the dying trajectory and physical changes in the dying patient. When reflecting on experiencing loss, students questioned their own actions, acknowledged the value of relationships and identified ways to cope.

Education [29]

Calling the Hermeneutic Circle: A Place of Belonging with Pre-Nursing Students

Packard, and Hoffman (2016)

To create caring pedagogical places, including a Caring Circle, for dwelling together in essential ontological questions.

n = 4

Being in caring circles offers radical possibilities for pedagogy of being and becoming in nursing education.

Being in caring circles offers radical possibilities for pedagogy of being and becoming in nursing education.

Students’ reflections and shared conversations become human science text for this hermeneutic phenomenological exploration of the lived experience of pre nursing students. Themes of longing, belonging, vulnerability, and comfort emerge. Being in caring circles offers radical possibilities for pedagogy of being and becoming in nursing education.

Education [30]

A Phenomenological Study of Student Nurses Volunteering in Nepal: Have Their Experiences Altered Their Understanding of Nursing?

Coatsworth, Hurley, and Miller-Rosser (2016)

To uncover the experiences of student nurses (participants) who volunteered as health care workers in Nepal impacted through volunteering as health care workers in Nepal.

n = 5

Engaging in overseas volunteering assisted student nurses to reconnect with their empathy and compassion, and explore the humanistic and interpersonal nature of nursing rather than the technical skill based components of nursing identity. Additionally, the participants were forced to enact their nursing skills to the very boundaries of their capabilities and to be more innovative.

From the research five emergent themes were emerged from the participant’s experiences:

1) Student nurses experienced growth of their nursing capabilities.

2) Student nurses experienced volunteering as building empathy, compassion and caring.

3) Student nurses’ experienced education and health promotion within their nursing identity.

4) Student nurses experienced the need to use creativity in overcoming barriers to delivering health care effectively.

5) Student nurses experienced gaining new capabilities to utilize in Australia.