Five Different Lives after Suffering from Spinal Cord Injury: The Experiences of Nurses Who Take Care of Spinal Cord Injury Patients

Abstract

According to statistics of Ministry of Health and Welfare, accidents were the sixth common causes of death in Taiwan in 2016. A total of 1200 new cases of spinal cord injury each year are caused by accidents and adverse effects. This study explored nurses’ experience of caring for patients with spinal cord injury. Hermeneutic phenomenology was used in the data analysis. The five themes emerged: dramatic changes in life, life lost control, life after catastrophic injury, life takes turns for the worse for family, and the power of rebirth. This study revealed that accidents were the primary cause of spinal cord injury, and that nurses may neglect patients’ mental and social care. Career guidance should be offered to spinal cord injury patients to ensure that they retain sociality. This study provides recommendations regarding a patient’s and their family’s post-injury adaption process. The sexual desire of patients should be further explored in future research.

Assessment of Nurses' Performance Regarding Care of Patients with Spinal Cord Injury

“…This result disagrees with El-Aqoul et al (19) in their study reported that more than half of the studied nurses were male. While, this finding is congruent with Wang et al (6) in their study reported that majority of nurses were married.…”

“…The greatest outcomes for patients should be promoted by nurses working as a multidisciplinary team to deliver effective nursing care that can stop or lessen future SCI. In addition to providing medical care, promoting patients' psychological well-being, implementing nursing plans based on scientific nursing theory and evidence-based practice, delivering education, and evaluating appropriate medical services for patients and their caregivers, nurses also play an important role in patient education (6) .…”

The experience of IPV among older women in Puerto Rico; a hermeneutic phenomenological study

“…Past interpretive phenomenologists have successfully used the seven steps of Colaizzi to analyse data (e.g. Domaradzki, 2022; Wang et al, 2022). The following steps were followed: 1. interviews were transcribed, read, and reread; 2. significant statements were identified; 3. meaning of statements were considered; 4. significant statements were organized under themes according to an understood meaning; 5. an exhaustive description of the phenomenon was created; 6. the fundamental structure and meaning of the phenomenon as shared by the participants was formed into a statement; and 7. the fundamental structure statement was validated (Colaizzi, 1978).…”

“…Past interpretive phenomenologists have successfully used the seven steps of Colaizzi to analyse data (e.g. Domaradzki, 2022;Wang et al, 2022).…”