DOING PHENOMENOLOGY AND HERMENEUTICS: Australian civilian nurses’

lived experience of being in disasters

Jamie Ranse

Supervisors: Prof Paul Arbon, Dr Lynette Cusack, and Prof Ramon Shaban

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research question

• What is it like being an Australian civilian registered general nurses, in the out-of-hospital disaster environment?

design

• Hermeneutics phenomenology – A way of interpretation– essence of things as they are appearing in the

conscious awareness of the first person.

participants

• A nurse who primarily works as a clinician in the in-hospital environment

• Has participated in the health response and/or recovery to a disaster in the last five years

• Responded with a civilian (non-military) organisation, association or group

• The response involved working in the out-of-hospital environment

participant recruitment

• Purposive

• Snowballing

data gathering

Interviews

•Phenomenological

•Hermeneutic

data analysis

• Eidetic reduction

data analysis

• Eidetic reduction

• Lived experience description

data analysis

• Eidetic reduction

• Lived experience description

• Hermeneutics

evaluation

• Phenomenological nod

• Evaluative appraisals

DOING PHENOMENOLOGY AND HERMENEUTICS: Australian civilian nurses’

lived experience of being in disasters

Jamie Ranse

Supervisors: Prof Paul Arbon, Dr Lynette Cusack, and Prof Ramon Shaban

jamieranse.com

twitter.com/jamieranse

youtube.com/jamieranse

linkedin.com/in/jamieranse