Public health nurses in rural communities immunize during influenza pandemics: what meanings do they attach to the experience?

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dc.contributor.authorTorrie, Carmen Ann
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Health Sciences
dc.contributor.supervisorSedgwick, Monique G.
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-11T17:20:54Z
dc.date.available2021-06-11T17:20:54Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.description.abstractThe H1N1 influenza pandemic (pH1N1) in 2009 was the first opportunity in history to administer vaccine on a grand scale. In Alberta, Canada public health nurses (PHNs) were the primary administrators of pandemic vaccine through mass immunization clinics. This paper describes what the experience of immunizing in mass clinics during pH1N1 was like for rural PHNs in Alberta. Five rural PHNs, all female, two being residents of the communities in which they immunized, and all of them knowing community members that presented to the mass clinics, participated in an interpretive phenomenological study of the meanings they attached to their lived experience. Five meanings are revealed that rural PHNs attach to their pandemic immunization experience: unpreparedness, urbancentrism, mistrust, personal growth, and moral distress. The interpretation of these meanings is that rural PHNs were often caught between a rock and hard place as they lived their experience.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/5903
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.proquest.subject0569en_US
dc.proquest.subject0573en_US
dc.proquestyesYesen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Health Sciencesen_US
dc.publisher.facultyHealth Sciencesen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Health Sciences)en_US
dc.subjectruralen_US
dc.subjectpublic health nursingen_US
dc.subjectimmunizationen_US
dc.subjectpandemicen_US
dc.subjectPublic health nursing -- Alberta, Southernen_US
dc.subjectRural health clinics -- Alberta, Southernen_US
dc.subjectRural nursing -- Alberta, Southernen_US
dc.subjectImmunization -- Alberta, Southernen_US
dc.subjectEpidemicsen_US
dc.subjectH1N1 influenza -- Vaccination -- Alberta, Southernen_US
dc.subjectPublic health nurses -- Alberta, Southern -- Interviewsen_US
dc.subjectDissertations, Academicen_US
dc.titlePublic health nurses in rural communities immunize during influenza pandemics: what meanings do they attach to the experience?en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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