Phenomenological inquiry as a methodology for investigating the lived experience of being critically ill in intensive care

In the Cartesian driven high tech environment of ICU were patients are objectified and reduced to anatomical and biochemical entities, phenomenological inquiry can bring a touch of humanness and holism to the care of critically ill patients. When discussing critical illness from a phenomenological lens, the word intentionality comes to the foreground. Therefore this paper begins by discussing intentionality as the centre of perception and existence in the world. It then discusses the place of phenomenology, phenomenology and nursing, the existentials and then phenomenology as a way of investigating the experience of critical illness".