The professional journey of Saudi nurse graduates: A lived experience

A deskilling and challenging journey: the lived experience of Indonesian nurse returnees.

AIM To illuminate the lived experiences of Indonesian nurses who previously worked as caregivers in Japanese residential care facilities, by exploring the journey of becoming returnees. BACKGROUND The creation of bilateral agreements between Indonesia and Japan has facilitated the movement of Indonesian nurses to work as caregivers in Japan since 2008. While this decision raised concerns with...

The Lived Experience of Becoming a Holistic Nurse

1 The Lived Experience of Pain : A Painful Journey for Medicine

Although understandings of pain phenomena have benefited from theoretical developments such as the biopsychosocial model of illness, the clinical path of the person in pain presenting to a health professional still leads to frustration for both. The biopsychosocial model generated an "official" definition, two major conceptual frameworks, and three putative explanatory models. However, in the a...

Lived Experience of People With Acquired Disabilities (A Phenomenological Study)

Introduction: Acquired disability is a peculia phenomenon that can lead to different personal and social experiences. This phenomenon, which is caused accidentally, poses serious challenges to an independent person who was able to do his/her tasks and leads to different and deep experiences for the disabled person, family, and relatives. This study was to explore lived experience and the meanin...

Saudi Meds: a competence specification for Saudi medical graduates.

A national competence framework has been developed by medical schools in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The framework has seven domains - approach to daily Practice, Dr and patient, Dr and community, communication skills, professionalism, Dr and information technology, Dr and research. The framework will guide curriculum development and assessment in the Kingdom and ensure that medical education ...