Tanner's story: a phenomenologic stance towards newborn death.
A phenomenologic stance is explored as a perspective from which to develop personal knowledge for nursing with families experiencing perinatal loss. The author's experience of newborn death is analyzed using van Manen's existential themes. An essential theme--validating motherhood--emerges from an analysis based on van Manen's lifeworld existential themes. Phenomenologic reflection is presented as a path to self-understanding and reflection, which may inform personal knowledge for nursing practice and the relationships nurses nurture with families.
British Columbia Institute of Technology, Burnaby.
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001293:Attitude to Death; D005086:Existentialism; D005260:Female; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D011368:Professional-Family Relations