| Learning Objective #1: Identify the clients of nursing in Korean doctoral dissertation | |||
| Learning Objective #2: Define the scope of nursing by identifying the clients of nursing who participate in nursing |
It is important for nursing in establishing its identity and expanding the scope of the profession to search for phenomena focused on humans and caring and clarification of the major client participants in nursing research. In doctoral dissertations, nurses not only do in-depth analysis of the phenomenon of the discipline but also confirm research trends for the discipline by redefining the phenomenon from a new perspective. An inductive method was used in the present study to analyze the type and range of the major clients of nursing who were participants in dissertation research. The results showed that there were 8 major client participant groups. These groups were, people who are weak, people in a transition period of growth and development, people needing health promoting activities, vulnerable families, vulnerable groups, relationships, people with social problems, and people being influenced by cultural phenomena. These individuals, as clients of nursing with special problems, had group characteristics that were portrayed more meaningfully through human phenomena than the more general portrayal of people who have traditionally been defined as the clients of nursing.
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