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Military Nurses' Experience in Disaster Response.

PB2012113495

Publication Date	2008
Personal Author	Rivers, F. M.
Page Count	138
Abstract	The purpose of this study was to understand the essence of military nurses lived experience of responding to disasters. Specific aims were to explore experiences of military nurses who had been deployed into disaster environments and to examine the impact the disaster responses had on their lives. A phenomenological approach grounded in the existential phenomenological works of Merleau-Ponty guided the study. Using purposive, snowballing technique and e-mailed information flyers, single face-to-face interviews lasting 27 to 70 minutes were conducted and digitally recorded, and the recordings were professionally transcribed. Twenty-three nurses from the United States Air Force, Army, Navy, and U.S. Public Health Service participated in the study. Line-by-line analysis was completed by employing hermeneutics to identify key words, phrases, and themes that described the essence of the experience.
Keywords	Nurses Military nurses Disasters Military response Disaster preparedness
Source Agency	TriService Nursing Research Program/Uniform Services Univ. of the Health Sciences
Corporate Authors	Tennessee Univ., Knoxville.; TriService Nursing Research Program, Bethesda, MD.
Supplemental Notes	Sponsored by TriService Nursing Research Program, Bethesda, MD.
Document Type	Technical Report
Title Note	Final rept., 01 June 08 - 30 June 10.
NTIS Issue Number	201225
Contract Number	N08-P12

Military Nurses' Experience in Disaster Response.

Military Nurses' Experience in Disaster Response.
PB2012113495

Publication Date	2008
Personal Author	Rivers, F. M.
Page Count	138
Abstract	The purpose of this study was to understand the essence of military nurses lived experience of responding to disasters. Specific aims were to explore experiences of military nurses who had been deployed into disaster environments and to examine the impact the disaster responses had on their lives. A phenomenological approach grounded in the existential phenomenological works of Merleau-Ponty guided the study. Using purposive, snowballing technique and e-mailed information flyers, single face-to-face interviews lasting 27 to 70 minutes were conducted and digitally recorded, and the recordings were professionally transcribed. Twenty-three nurses from the United States Air Force, Army, Navy, and U.S. Public Health Service participated in the study. Line-by-line analysis was completed by employing hermeneutics to identify key words, phrases, and themes that described the essence of the experience.
Keywords	Nurses Military nurses Disasters Military response Disaster preparedness
Source Agency	TriService Nursing Research Program/Uniform Services Univ. of the Health Sciences
Corporate Authors	Tennessee Univ., Knoxville.; TriService Nursing Research Program, Bethesda, MD.
Supplemental Notes	Sponsored by TriService Nursing Research Program, Bethesda, MD.
Document Type	Technical Report
Title Note	Final rept., 01 June 08 - 30 June 10.
NTIS Issue Number	201225
Contract Number	N08-P12