Abstract

Birth tourism families plan their birthing experience that includes purchasing a maternity care package, traveling internationally to a preferred destination, and the delivery of a healthy newborn in an expected short hospital stay. However, some families admit a premature or ill infant into a South Florida neonatal intensive care unit. When admitted into this setting, neonatal nurses are unique in providing quality nursing care to birth tourism infants and their parents as a family unit. There remains a gap in nursing research in understanding neonatal nurses' lived experience caring for birth tourism families in the neonatal intensive care unit.

The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological study using van Manen's (1990) methodology was to understand the lived experience of neonatal nurses caring for birth tourism families who admit a newborn into South Florida's neonatal intensive care units.

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This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 28646127; ProQuest document ID: 2562470637. The author still retains copyright.

Author Details

Tamara LaCroix, PhD, RN

Sigma Membership

Theta Tau

Type

Dissertation

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Phenomenology

Research Approach

Qualitative Research

Keywords:

Neonatal Nurses, Birth Tourism, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), Quality of Care

Advisor

Jessie M. Colin

Second Advisor

Ferrona A. Beason

Third Advisor

Claudette R. Chin

Degree

PhD

Degree Grantor

Barry University

Degree Year

2021

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Review Type

None: Degree-based Submission

Acquisition

Proxy-submission

Date of Issue

2021-09-24

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