TY - BOOK AU - Bajaras, Rachel A. AU - Tarucan, Marites C. AU - Celestino, Evelyn M. TI - Retirement confidence of nurse: : A phenomenological approach PY - 2018/// CY - Cebu City PB - University of Cebu N1 - Thesis (Institutional Faculty Research) -- University of Cebu- Banilad, 2018 N2 - Summary: Retirement goes with aging and it is an inevitable reality to humanity. This investigation explores the retirement confidence among the retiring nurses in Cebu. It further uncovers the perception and unavoidable attitude of retiring nurses about their retirement confidence about aspects of retirement and related issues. This study utilized the qualitative- phenomenological research design to reach the true meaning of the research topic through engaging in- depth reality. This methodology established a description of how individual perception is measured, valued by the experience of the phenomenon as perceived by human consciousness of an object of the study by selected registered nurses who worked on permanent status in private tertiary hospitals in Cebu, Philippines and are accredited by the Department of Health. The purposive snowball sampling technique was also utilized for which the researcher relies on his judgement when choosing members of the population to participate in the study. The researcher also used an open, unstructured qualitative interview. This meant to place the informants at a comfortable state, asked to discourse about issues related to the study, naturally revealed significant information and explained the deepness of the underlying meaning of their responses. The phenomenon of retirement confidence among retiring nurses revealed the following themes "Drives to retirement that emanates from the key informant's perception of freelancer, wanderer , sense of fulfillment, and a master of one's desire and gratification towards retirement that derives from the omega- alpha of life, denying responsibilities, and from sense of obligatory to voluntary. ER -