Calhermeneutical process for interpreting interview text, because the aim in the system was to disclose the meaning of nurses’ encounter of residents’ spiritual desires [44]. The technique of analysis was inspired by Ricoeur’s philosophy [45]. Interpretations with the text consist of a dialectic movement in between understanding the entire text and parts in the text, which can be consistent with all the hermeneutic strategy [46]. This closeness and distance of your text implies interpreting the text with regards to reading the text for what it says and further understanding what the text suggests. The evaluation followed three steps: na e reading, structural evaluation and formulation of a comprehensive understanding.Na e reading (initial reading)MedChemExpress ARRY-470 information have been collected from June 2011 to January 2012. A minimum of one particular interview was performed at each on the 4 institutions, and a follow-up interview was conducted. Investigation shows that recurrent knowledge dialogue in a certain group might raise the understanding of a theme [40,41]. By way of having a follow-up interview, we wanted to receive the participants’ reflections after the initial interview and deepen a number of the subjects that the nurses discussed inside the initial interview [40]. Precisely the same moderator (very first author) and observer (second author) carried out all eight interviews that have been located inside the nursing houses, lasted 1 ?- two hours and recordedThe text was study a number of instances to grasp the which means as a whole. Through the reading, we attempted to focus on the nurses’ lived experiences as they reflected on the residents spiritual and existential expressions. Na e reading was discussed amongst the researchers and further guided the thematic structural evaluation.Structural analysisAll 4 researchers conducted data coding. Very first, the text was divided into meaning units. We reflected on the which means units based around the background of PubMed ID:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20425085 the na e understanding and after that condensed the units to reflect the necessary meaning. We study via all the condensed meaning units and reflected on their similarities and differences. Sub-themes were then produced, which were assembled to themes and major themes. We additional reflected on the themes in relation to the na e understanding, andbehr et al. BMC Nursing 2014, 13:12 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6955/13/Page 4 ofif we discovered a discrepancy involving the na e understanding and themes, the structural evaluation method was repeated until there was compliance.Comprehensive understandingWe reflected on the themes and sub-themes in relation to our pre-understanding, analysis query, as well as the context of the study, in which we sought a comprehensive understanding. The credibility of the findings was assessed in the process of coding, in that we chosen important sections from the participants’ statements and identified explicit themes. We sought to safeguard transparency and trustworthiness via quotations from distinctive participations inside the presentation from the findings. During the entire course of action, we attempted to assess consistency among the information presented as well as the study findings, which includes both important and minor themes. By comparing themes towards the naive reading, we strengthened the validity of the evaluation.Ethical considerationsreligious activities, like prayer and singing hymns. Moreover, they observed that residents wanted to connect to them on a personal level. The nurses described residents’ previous interests, which include nature experiences, culture and traditions as spiritual requires, as.