The genesis of a phenomenological approach to advanced nursing practice.
This paper describes how participation, as a co-investigator, in a phenomenological study of the high-risk perinatal experience led to the development of a new approach to advanced nursing practice for a maternity clinical nurse specialist. Prior to implementation of the study, nursing was practised based in a structured, conceptual framework, but, as a result of conducting interviews with study subjects, analysing data with a research team and gaining a better understanding of the high-risk perinatal experience, a new style of nursing practice based in a phenomenological approach emerged, which permeated all aspects of clinical nurse specialist practice.
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Foothills Hospital, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D016389:Maternal-Child Nursing / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000592:standards*; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research / Q000379:methods*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000523:psychology*; D012380:Role; D013597:Systems Analysis