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Co-writing the Lives of Registered Nurses Employed under the Nurse Deployment Program of the Department of Health

Volume: 86  ,  Issue: 1 , October    Published Date: 08 October 2021
Publisher Name: IJRP
Views: 865  ,  Download: 385 , Pages: 82 - 86    
DOI: 10.47119/IJRP1008611020212315

Authors

# Author Name
1 Jay C. Barrios Jr., RN

Abstract

Community Health Nursing is one of the major areas in the nursing profession, yet it is not given many highlights in some circumstances. This condition puts new emphasis on the need for more research about this field of nursing. Consequently, this research study explored the lived experiences of registered nurses employed under the Nurse Deployment Program of the DOH. Furthermore, it involved seven qualified participants from the Rural Health Unit of Nagcarlan, Laguna. The researcher used descriptive, cross-sectional qualitative research, particularly a phenomenological approach by Husserl.The process includes four steps: bracketing, intuiting, analyzing and describing. The researcher facilitated a face-to-face, semi-structured interview in which the process was audio recorded to garner subjective data accurately. Thus, the researcher prepared a written topic guide, which is a list of open-ended questions to be answered by the participants, also known as procedural questions. The statements of participants were transcribed into text and then categorized into different themes. On the validation of the study, the researcher used triangulation Several themes were identified and fit into two factors: first are the intrinsic factors which include proper time and stress management, and career advancement and personal growth; while the others are the extrinsic factors which include fair workload and compensation, and resolution of issues related to working experiences. Based on the findings, the researcher developed a thematic framework that shows that extrinsic and intrinsic factors contributed to the satisfaction of the participants with their job, and made them stay in their chosen field. Hence, this calls for another research study using a mixed-method that approaches specifically the sequential exploratory design.

Keywords

  • Phenomenology
  • Lived Experiences
  • community health nursing
  • intrinsic factors
  • extrinsic factors