Search for the Process of Providing Nursing Action with Concern

—Study on Nurses Corporeity through Interaction with the Patient—

Abstract

This study aims to analyze nurses corporeity through the interaction with patients in order to explore the process in which nurses provide care based on their concern for patients. The modified grounded theory approach (M-GTA) was used to analyze the data of semi-structured interviews with 32 nurses. Results generated a total of five categories, eight sub-categories, and 36 concepts. Based on concern for the patient, the nurse “corporeally empathizes with” changes that the patient is experiencing by “sensing with corporeal sensibilities,” and “making good use of innate judgment and effective steps.” Two types of processes then came into play: The “effected action” process in which the nurse becomes close to the patient through understanding, and the type of process in which the nurse seeks a clear understanding as it raises a new area of uncertainty. These processes occur simultaneously and end with “the nurse's feedback and direction gained through the interaction” with the patient, and nurses base these experiences on the interaction with other patients.