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- Title
Group Dream Work: A Holistic Resource for Oncology Nurses.
- Authors
Cohen, Marlene Zichi; Bumbaugh, Mickey
- Abstract
Purpose/Objectives: To explore dream work as a possible means for nurses to increase self-understanding and problem solving in personal and professional life. Design: Hermeneutic phenomenologic, descriptive, and interpretive. Setting: A comprehensive cancer center in the southern United States. Sample: Six nurses with a mean age of 40 and 1-10 years of oncology nursing experience. Methods: Interviews, guided by descriptive and interpretive phenomenology, were conducted with nurses before and one and six months after they participated in eight weekly sessions of a group focused on dream work. Phenomenologic analysis was done on verbatim transcriptions of all interviews. Findings: Nurses found value in participating in dream groups, including having more open discussions about feelings and death, managing difficult situations, and attending to patients in the present. Conclusions: The value of learning to attend to dreams may be subtle but has value to nurses. Implications for Nursing: Incorporating dream work is one holistic intervention that may be useful to improve job satisfaction, communication, and relationships in this time of nursing shortage.
- Subjects
UNITED States; NURSES; DREAMS; WORK-life balance programs; ONCOLOGY nursing
- Publication
Oncology Nursing Forum, 2004, Vol 31, Issue 4, p817
- ISSN
0190-535X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1188/04.ONF.817-824