Nurse's experience of the perception of nursing conscience: A phenomenological study

Perception of conscience is related to the qualities and actions of the conscience and what one thinks of the origin of conscience. Among the health staff، perception of conscience is obviously different. Thus، the current study was carried out to evaluate the nurses’ experience of the perception of nursing conscience. The study was a qualitative approach، performed with phenomenological method. In scheduled times the participants attended unstructured interviews. The interviews were recorded and then transcribed. Data analysis was performed according to Colaizzi’s method. The accuracy of the data was verified by checking its creditability، confirmability، reliability، and transferability. Nine nurses—، attended in-depth interviews. By continuous analysis of the data as well as analysis of the handwritings related to the interviews on the experience — of nurses with respect to their perception of the conscience nature، four major categories of existence، promotion، establishment، and acts (roles) of conscience emerged in ten sub-categories. The lived experiences of nurses on the perception of conscience were as internal sense that guide and supervises human being. Meanwhile the conscience is constant but fluctuating. The nurses percept that they can improve the conscience by right symbolization.