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Record W4408933534 · doi:10.1177/10784535251329377

Understanding the Meaning Attributed to Patients’ Lived Experience Beyond a Diagnostic Label: Applications of Interpretive Phenomenology to Nursing Practice

2025· article· en· W4408933534 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueCreative Nursing · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicEmpathy and Medical Education
Canadian institutionsDalhousie University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLifeworldPhenomenology (philosophy)Lived experienceMeaning (existential)EpistemologyHermeneutic phenomenologyPsychologyNursingInterpretative phenomenological analysisQualitative researchMedicineSociologyPsychotherapistPhilosophySocial science

Abstract

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Unearthing the meaning patients' attribute to their lived experience beyond a diagnostic label has profound implications to reconceptualize the caring art of nursing practice. Featured throughout this article are lessons learnt from caring for a patient who had received a stigmatizing diagnosis of liver cirrhosis. Contained within such heavily stigmatized diagnoses are various preunderstandings (e.g., negative views about substance misuse) that are often informed by dominant societal beliefs, which can impede nurses' ability to authentically care for patients across the lifespan. Interpretive phenomenology is a philosophical tradition dedicated to the description of lived experience; this philosophy can facilitate an understanding of how things appear in the world in which they exist. By applying interpretive phenomenology to nursing practice, nurses can understand the essence that patients' attribute to their diagnostic label by authentically exploring their lifeworld. Utilizing the philosophical underpinnings of interpretive phenomenology, this article proposes opportunities to inform the way nurses care for patients by exploring how a Gadamerian fusion of horizons and holistic approach to care can reconceptualize nursing practice. Understanding the meaning patients' attribute to their lived experiences is a critical step to optimizing care by granting nurses the opportunity to ascribe meaning in their everyday clinical practice, which can motivate positive patient outcomes and a continuous evolution of their authentic being.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.010
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.704
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.010
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.069
GPT teacher head0.398
Teacher spread0.328 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it