{"title":"The Loss of the Nurse as an Individual: Nursing, Well-Being and Existentialism.","authors":"Marci Kay Livingston, Stacy Manning","doi":"10.1111/nup.70013","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research into how existentially aware nurses and nursing interventions have highlighted the benefits to patients and patient outcomes. Less is known about how existentially based training affects nurses themselves. This project sought to understand if and how a training programme developed to improve nurses' knowledge of existential theory would affect their well-being. Overall, despite challenges to recruitment, follow-up and data collection, three key themes were developed from the data: (1) Things Are Difficult, (2) We Need More… and (3) Well-Being Is Personal. Existentialist philosophy can be an effective way of providing nurses with the tools to develop and express their own definition of well-being. It can also be useful to healthcare systems and administrators seeking to find ways of reducing burnout and turnover among nursing staff.</p>","PeriodicalId":49724,"journal":{"name":"Nursing Philosophy","volume":"26 2","pages":"e70013"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6000,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nursing Philosophy","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nup.70013","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"NURSING","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Research into how existentially aware nurses and nursing interventions have highlighted the benefits to patients and patient outcomes. Less is known about how existentially based training affects nurses themselves. This project sought to understand if and how a training programme developed to improve nurses' knowledge of existential theory would affect their well-being. Overall, despite challenges to recruitment, follow-up and data collection, three key themes were developed from the data: (1) Things Are Difficult, (2) We Need More… and (3) Well-Being Is Personal. Existentialist philosophy can be an effective way of providing nurses with the tools to develop and express their own definition of well-being. It can also be useful to healthcare systems and administrators seeking to find ways of reducing burnout and turnover among nursing staff.
期刊介绍：
Nursing Philosophy provides a forum for discussion of philosophical issues in nursing. These focus on questions relating to the nature of nursing and to the phenomena of key relevance to it. For example, any understanding of what nursing is presupposes some conception of just what nurses are trying to do when they nurse. But what are the ends of nursing? Are they to promote health, prevent disease, promote well-being, enhance autonomy, relieve suffering, or some combination of these? How are these ends are to be met? What kind of knowledge is needed in order to nurse? Practical, theoretical, aesthetic, moral, political, ''intuitive'' or some other?
Papers that explore other aspects of philosophical enquiry and analysis of relevance to nursing (and any other healthcare or social care activity) are also welcome and might include, but not be limited to, critical discussions of the work of nurse theorists who have advanced philosophical claims (e.g., Benner, Benner and Wrubel, Carper, Schrok, Watson, Parse and so on) as well as critical engagement with philosophers (e.g., Heidegger, Husserl, Kuhn, Polanyi, Taylor, MacIntyre and so on) whose work informs health care in general and nursing in particular.
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