Teamwork and communication, characteristics learned through playing college sports, can precipitate a sense of wonder in the lived experiences of nursing students who played a college sport.
A ...phenomenological study was conducted to understand the meaning of the collegiate roles of the nursing student and the student athlete. These roles carry different sets of responsibilities, social contacts, and physical and emotional demands. Thirteen practicing nurses who played a college sport during their nursing program were interviewed.
Data analysis revealed four essential themes that described the meaning of their experience: athletic identity, perseverance, advocates and adversaries, and belongingness. Results suggest participation in college sports creates a sense of belonging that assists in the transition into college.
Although nursing students may be deterred from coordinating academics and athletics, this study indicates it is possible and may even have benefits, both academically and during students' transition into practice.
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Patients with neurological symptoms are particularly sensitive to the quality of the sensory impressions to which they are exposed to during hospitalization.
To understand the meaning of aesthetic ...experiences to patients afflicted with neurological diseases during hospitalization on a neurological unit.
Fifteen patients were invited to "walk and talk" supplemented by semi-structured interviews conducted in newly established aesthetic tableaus within the neurology unit. Data analysis was inspired by the hermeneutic phenomenological methodology of van Manen.
The data analysis identified three overarching themes that unfolded in the patients' experiences of a more aesthetic environment. The themes were: 1) A safe place to avoid noisiness, 2) An invitation to homey activities, 3) A thoughtful consideration for being ill.
Aesthetic elements can enable a thoughtful and needed consideration that withholds momentarily imaginative and hopeful experiences to patients in a vulnerable situation. Thus, aesthetics, together with peace and quietness, can set vulnerable patients free to retreat and recover from the symptoms of neurological diseases.
Patients with a neurological disease are affected by their ability to maintain focus and are easily disturbed by outside stimuli. Few studies have investigated how sensory impressions from the ...physical environment contribute to patient's wellbeing during hospitalization. However, no studies have explored the meaning of the environment to patients with a neurological disease during hospitalization. To understand what it is like to be a patient in a hospitalized environment at the neurological department. Nine patients were interviewed. Data analysis was inspired by the hermeneutic phenomenological methodology of van Manen. Four themes were identified: Perceiving unrest leading to despair; Angling for attention from staff; Being in a vacuum of imposed passivity; Seeking breathing spaces. The study provides insight into how environment plays a significant role in relation to existential issues for patients during hospitalization. Hence, the patients illuminate the experience of becoming nomads lurking around to find breathing spaces when they were not offered a calm and familiar environment. Patients shared that a hospital interior can be appealing and uplifting, decreasing their experiences of placelessness and thereby supporting them in a life situation where they feel less threatened concerning their health and wellbeing.
How do we explore the meaningfulness of others' experiences? What means do we have to access their experiencing of the world? How do we express our understandings of others' experiences of body and ...place without reducing them to objectification? In this methodological paper, we reflect on how we can gain valuable insights into the lived experiences of others through research activities that are conducted 'alongside' participants. Phenomenological concepts of intentionality and embodiment are considered as we draw on an empirical example of exploring the experiences of hospitalized patients with neurological diseases through observations and interviews. The aim is to unfold alongside as an epistemological stance to explore the meaning of another's lifeworld. We strive to show that personal presence and engagement within this approach contains relational, existential, and aesthetic dimensions worth considering.
Healthcare is demanding its healthcare workers to communicate and collaborate in a team environment. The Institute of Medicine has identified teamwork and collaboration as vital qualities for nurses ...to learn in the nursing curriculum. Yet, nursing education has been unsuccessful in assuring that its graduates are as prepared with these attributes as they should be. The participation in collegiate extracurricular activities has been shown to foster leadership, communication skills, self-efficacy and persistence to stay in college, yet there is very little research on the nursing student who participates in college activities. There is also a plethora of studies on student athletes and the qualities that are learned from this experience, yet again, no nursing students are mentioned in these studies. This study used a phenomenological design to illuminate the experiences of having dual collegiate roles; that of the student nurse and the student athlete. Thirteen practicing nurses who all played an NCAA sanctioned sport during college were interviewed about their collegiate experience. Each collegiate role has various challenges and coordinating the dual roles was not easy, yet the nurses shared very poignant stories of how and why these roles enhanced the other. The five essential themes that shed light on the dual role of these nurses were: 1) Athletic Identity, 2) Perseverance, 3) Support, 4) Acceptance and Belonging and 5) Transitioning the Sports Mentality into Nursing. The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.
RNase P is a ribonucleoprotein endoribonuclease responsible for the 5′ maturation of precursor tRNAs in all organisms. While analyzing mutations in conserved positions of the yeast nuclear RNase P ...RNA subunit, significant accumulation of an aberrant RNA of ∼193 nucleotides was observed. This abundant RNA was identified as a 3′ extended form of the 5.8S rRNA. This strain also displays a slightly elevated level of other rRNA processing intermediates with 5′-ends at processing site A2 in the internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS1) region of the rRNA primary transcript. To test whether pre-rRNA in the region of ITS1/5.8S/ITS2 is a substrate for RNase P in vitro, nuclear RNase P was partially purified to remove contaminating nucleases. Cleavage assays were performed using an rRNA substrate transcribed in vitro which includes the 5.8S region and its surrounding processing sites in ITS1 and ITS2. Discrete cleavages of this rRNA substrate were coincident with the peak fractions of nuclear RNase P, but not with fractions corresponding to mitochondrial RNase P or ribonuclease MRP RNA. The cleavage activity is sensitive to treatment with micrococcal nuclease, also consistent with an activity attributable to RNase P. The strong RNase P cleavage sites were mapped and their possible relationships to steps in the rRNA processing pathway are considered. These observations suggest an intimate relationship between the processes of tRNA and rRNA maturation in the eukaryotic nucleus.
Catalytic RNAs are metalloenzymes that require precise coordination of divalent cation cofactors. In RNase P RNA, a conserved structural subdomain that has been implicated in magnesium coordination ...contains the consensus sequence acAGaRA. Randomization mutagenesis of the analogous sequence in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae nuclear RNase P RNA gene, RPR1, gave viable sequence variants that confer magnesium-correctable growth defects and are defective in magnesium cofactor utilization by the RNase P holoenzyme in vitro. Kinetic analysis of the defective holoenzymes suggests that the primary effects were on catalytic rate, rather than substrate recognition. The possible involvement of this RNA subdomain in catalysis is discussed.
Phylogenetic studies of yeast nuclear RNase P RNA genes have shown a striking conservation of secondary structure for the Saccharomyces and Schizosaccharomyces RNase P RNAs, yet much of the primary ...sequence and many substructures vary among the RNAs examined. To investigate which sequences and structural features can be varied and still allow function in a heterologous organism, RNase P genes from several yeast species were tested for the ability to substitute for the Saccharomyces cerevisiae RNA. The RNase P genes from Saccharomyces carlsbergensis and Saccharomyces kluyveri could act as the sole source of RNase P RNA within S. cerevisiae cells, whereas the genes from Saccharomyces globosus and Schizosaccharomyces pombe could not. Although heterologous RNase P RNAs were synthesized by the cells in all cases, the RNAs that complemented tended to be processed from longer precursor transcripts into mature-sized RNase P RNA, while the RNAs that did not complement tended to accumulate as the longer precursor form. The results identified sequences and structures in the RNA that are not essential for interaction with species-specific proteins, processing or localization, and suggested other positions that may be candidates for such processes.
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