Motivation is very important for nurses to display positive attitude that will assist and attain the goals and objectives of every organization. The clinical nurse managers motivate their subordinates to promote a healthy working environment. This paper explores the stories of nurses on how they were motivated by their clinical nurse managers utilizing qualitative case study using narrative inquiry method. This qualitative case study explores multiple cases through detailed, in-depth data collection involving multiple sources of information using interviews. In selection of participants, purposive sampling was used. Data gathering uses in-depth semi-structured interviews in exploring staff nurses' experiences of the motivational practices with their clinical nurse supervisors. In the study, ten staff nurse's narratives offered insight into their perceptions of the motivational practices showed to them by their clinical nurse managers in their entire work relationships. The stories of these nurses revealed seven desirable motivational characteristics of the clinical nurse managers.

Violence in the workplace is a common situation among workers all over the world. This may happen to almost all companies and industries where violence is really a concern. One workplace where violence is rampant includes the hospitals and nursing homes. In the Philippines, nurses are confronted with physical, verbal, and emotional abuses. However, evidence of verbal abuse against nurses in the workplace are little and even fragmented literature reviews particularly on exposure rates, sources, and responses. This study determined the lived experiences of nurses who experienced verbal abuses in their workplace. The study utilized qualitative descriptive phenomenological approach that describe social phenomenon that is concerned with opinions, feelings and experiences of nurses as they occur naturally in the time of verbal abuse. Purposive sampling was used, and it focused on nurses who are employed in the hospitals. The instrument utilized the Bevans interview guide which is an essential concept to understand the present phenomenon. Descriptive bracketing allowed the researcher to focus on the pure essences of the phenomenon. The Colaizzi's eight steps were used in analyzing the data. The results of the study revealed the themes as result of their lived experiences. The first theme is destructive experience, the second theme is reactive responses, and the third theme is the evasive strategies. With these findings, the researcher noted the phases of the nurses lived experiences. Despite of difficulties, pain and sadness, the nurses have the capacity to resolve and cope any kinds of violent situations.

Following ostomy surgery, patients experience overwhelming changes which often affect their overall well-being (Ito et al., 2012). Surprisingly, there is paucity on the perceptions and views of clients with an ostomy in a Filipino understanding. A phenomenological lens anchored on the philosophy of Husserl was used to discover and describe the lived experience of clients with ostomy. Purposive-Snowball sampling was utilized in the study. Conversational, formal and semi-structured interviews were the methods used as means to unravel the experience of the participants. Data analysis was based on Colaizzi’s methodology. The whole process was based on the data, transcribed interviews, sorting, categorizations (cool analysis), categories as thematized (warm analysis) and a repertory grid or a dendrogram that paved the way to discovering the value of the lived experiences of clients with ostomy. The description of the experience revealed two major themes namely, the Dystopia experience that emanate from the participants’ negative perceptions of alienation, desolation and desperation. Moreover, the second theme is the Utopia experience that derives from the participants’ understanding of acceptance, gratitude, and enlightenment. It is imperative that there is a need to understand the perceptions of clients with ostomy to devise an appropriate plan of care that addresses the main goal of a healthy transition.

Frustrations is a deep chronic sense or state of insecurity and dissatisfaction arising from unresolved problems or unfulfilled needs. This study delved on the lived experiences of nurses’ frustrations particularly in the clinical settings. The research design utilized a qualitative descriptive phenomenological study in the public and private tertiary hospitals in Cebu City, Philippines employing millennial nurses. Thus, purposive sampling and an in-depth semi-structured method was utilized. Data were analyzed using Colaizzi’s process for phenomenological data analysis. The results of the study emerged five major themes from the extracted statements specifically: (1) challenging experience, (2) controlling experience, (3) cold-shouldering experience, (4) censuring experience and (5) unvalued experience. The lived experiences of the millennia nurses significantly revealed their thoughts and feelings as a result of frustrations encounters in the workplace. To address the findings, it is best for the clinical nurse managers and leaders to be vigilant on the situations that may cause frustrations and find a way on how to deal without putting stigma to the millennial nurses in the clinical setting and continually redesigning the system to adapt to ongoing and future challenges. It is recommended that the nurse managers and administration may explore tailor-fit approaches and programs in the workplace to address reducing, preventing and eliminating frustrations of nurses, to improve policies in the workplace particularly in addressing related educational development, participation in professional trainings, autonomy in nursing practice, and workloads, the academician may enhance the policy improvement by conducting research related to conflict and frustrations, and lastly the future researchers may use the findings for further studies in order to deepen the understanding of frustrations among nurses.

Contractualization of nurses is rampant in the Philippine public health system. With the current situation, the main concern of the nurse administrators is the retention of nurses in the workforce which is very critical for health system performance. This study explores the stories of contractual nurses who have worked and resigned in hospitals. The study adopted a longitudinal qualitative case study using interpretive narrative method. It utilized purposive sampling since it involved participants with experience regarding the phenomenon of interest. The data were analysed in two stages. Holistic-content method of life story and a thematic approach to narratives. The themes emerged include "More, More, More" means lack of financial support, Between "You and Me" connotes lack of healthy peer relationship, "Work, Work, Work" indicates stressful work demands, "Across the Green Pasteur" signifies better opportunities outside the hospital and "I Need You" entails no administrative attention. Among variety of reasons of resignation of the contractual nurses from their job mainly included economic, political, emotional/psychological and social factor that greatly affects the person as a whole. The results are beneficial to the hospital administration in addressing nurses' retention.