This document outlines a research study that uses phenomenology and hermeneutics to understand the lived experience of Australian civilian nurses working in disaster environments outside of hospitals. The study will recruit nurses who have responded to a disaster in the last 5 years through civilian organizations. Data will be collected through phenomenological and hermeneutic interviews and analyzed using eidetic reduction, lived experience descriptions, and hermeneutics. The results will be evaluated through phenomenological nod and appraisals to understand the essence of the nurses' experiences in disasters.

1. DOING PHENOMENOLOGY AND HERMENEUTICS:
Australian civilian nurses’
lived experience of being in disasters
Jamie Ranse
Supervisors: Prof Paul Arbon, Dr Lynette Cusack,
and Prof Ramon Shaban
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2. research question
• What is it like being an Australian civilian registered
general nurses, in the out-of-hospital disaster
environment?

3. design
• Hermeneutics phenomenology
– A way of interpretation
– essence of things as they are appearing in the
conscious awareness of the first person.

4. participants
• A nurse who primarily works as a clinician in the in-
hospital environment
• Has participated in the health response and/or
recovery to a disaster in the last five years
• Responded with a civilian (non-military)
organisation, association or group
• The response involved working in the out-of-hospital
environment

5. participant recruitment
• Purposive
• Snowballing

6. data gathering
Interviews
•Phenomenological
•Hermeneutic

7. data analysis
• Eidetic reduction

8. data analysis
• Eidetic reduction
• Lived experience description

9. data analysis
• Eidetic reduction
• Lived experience description
• Hermeneutics

10. evaluation
• Phenomenological nod
• Evaluative appraisals

11. DOING PHENOMENOLOGY AND HERMENEUTICS:
Australian civilian nurses’
lived experience of being in disasters
Jamie Ranse
Supervisors: Prof Paul Arbon, Dr Lynette Cusack,
and Prof Ramon Shaban
jamieranse.com
twitter.com/jamieranse
youtube.com/jamieranse
linkedin.com/in/jamieranse