Abstract
dc:description.abstractThe recent expansion of focus within medicine to include palliative care has created a new corps of professionals who fulfill a role that might be considered antithetical to their profession. This new medical role calls for individuals who have personality characteristics that will allow them to constantly face death. This study was concerned with examining, in Adlerian life style terms, the personality characteristics of one segment of that corps--the hospice home care nurse. The subjects used in this study represent the population of nurses (N = 6) who provide the care within the framework of the home care program of Hillhaven Hospice of Tucson. A structured interview was held by the researcher at which time the subjects responded to each of the items on the Life Style Interview Guide. Three experts trained in Adlerian psychology and life style interpretation collectively analyzed each life style in order to arrive at a life style summary for each nurse as well as a composite summary. The results of this study showed a high degree of similarity and consistency with regard to attitudes, personality characteristics and life style themes of the hospice home care nurses studied.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- doctoral
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Graduate College
- Grantor dc:publisher
- The University of Arizona.
- Year dc:date.issued
- 1980
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Bichekas, Georgia
- Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
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- Newton, Betty J.
Subjects
dc:subject × 4Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author.
- Language dc:language.iso
- en_US
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Handle dc:identifier.uri
- http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282350
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:repository.arizona.edu:10150/282350