Nursing Metaparadigm: Insights from a Chilean ICU Nurse’s Journey
Words: 1409 Pages: 5 1691Introduction and Clinical Background Before entering my Ph.D. studies, I was a clinical nurse for around eight years in Chile's medical-surgical intensive care unit (ICU). Early in my undergraduate studies, I was interested in critically ill patients. Still, my first face-to-face encounter was on college holidays when I worked as an ICU nursing aide. That opportunity gave me a glimpse of what ICU nurses do, but also a sense of uncertainty about if I would be able to do it, […]