Friendship and Caring Communion: The Meaning of Caring Relationship in District Nursing
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The aim of this study was to illuminate the meaning of caring relationship directed to the elderly as experienced by district nurses. Twelve district nurses were interviewed in the form of a dialogue. The interviews were audiotaped and transcribed. The text was analyzed using a phenomenological-hermeneutic approach inspired by Paul Ricoeur who describes the interpretation of a text as a dialectical movement between understanding and explanation. The interpretation of the text reveals that the meaning of caring relationship is friendship and caring communion that is founded in the local community.
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2013 ◽
Vol 34
(109)
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pp. 3