Abstract
The nursing profession is calling for enhanced diversity within the ranks of registered nurses to meet the health care needs of an increasingly diverse society. Nursing education is faced with the challenge of retaining ethnically diverse nursing students. Students who are ethnically diverse face unique challenges in addition to the universal stressors of nursing school. The experience of comfort as theorized by Kolcaba may provide ease, relief, and transcendence of the discomfort experienced by diverse nursing students. This ethnonursing research study utilizing Leininger's Culture Care Theory is an in-depth examination of the culture care meaning of comfort for ethnically diverse nursing students. A purposeful sample of seven key informants and 14 general informants was employed.
Sigma Membership
Rho Theta
Type
Dissertation
Format Type
Text-based Document
Study Design/Type
Other
Research Approach
Qualitative Research
Keywords:
Nursing Education, Ethnically Diverse Nursing Students, Ethnonursing Research, Nursing Student Stress
Advisor
Nancy White
Second Advisor
Lory Clukey
Third Advisor
Mallie Kozy
Fourth Advisor
Basilia Softas-Nall
Degree
PhD
Degree Grantor
University of Northern Colorado
Degree Year
2010
Recommended Citation
Zajac, Lynne K., "The culture care meaning of comfort for ethnically diverse pre-licensure baccalaureate nursing students in the educational setting" (2022). Dissertations. 1507.
https://www.sigmarepository.org/dissertations/1507
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Review Type
None: Degree-based Submission
Acquisition
Proxy-submission
Date of Issue
2022-06-21
Full Text of Presentation
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Description
This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 3439986; ProQuest document ID: 852625749. The author still retains copyright.