Exploring the Lived Experience of Waiting for Persons in Long-Term Care

The purpose of this study was to describe the meaning of waiting for persons who reside in long-term care settings. Parse’s theory of human becoming provided the nursing perspective and a qualitative descriptive-exploratory design was used. The 45 participants were residents in three different long-term care facilities affiliated with a university. Data were gathered through interviews. Three emergent themes formed the following unified description: The experience of waiting is intensifying ire while diversionary immersions reprieve amid unfolding becalming endurance. The themes are discussed in relation to participants’ descriptions, the human becoming theory, and related literature. Recommendations for practice and further research are presented.

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