Nurses’ Experiences of Grief Following Patient Death: A Qualitative Approach
| Autor: | Hana M. Abu-Snieneh, Rula Al-Rimawi, Arwa Masadeh, Ruba Musallam, Abla Habeeb Allah, Inaam Khalaf, Mohammad BaniYounis, Maysoun Atoum, Laila I Al-Daken, Atef Hassan Khatib, Ghadeer Al-Dweik |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Male Attitude to Death Nursing (miscellaneous) Psychotherapist Attitude of Health Personnel media_common.quotation_subject Nurses Anger Life Change Events Faith 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Denial Adaptation Psychological medicine Humans Qualitative Research media_common Jordan 030504 nursing Crying Social Support Middle Aged Focus group humanities Sadness Feeling 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Female Grief medicine.symptom 0305 other medical science Psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Holistic Nursing. 36:228-240 |
| ISSN: | 1552-5724 0898-0101 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0898010117720341 |
| Popis: | Purpose: To explore the lived experiences of nurses’ feelings, emotions, grief reactions, and coping mechanisms following their patients’ death. Background: On a daily basis, nurses are experiencing patients’ death, which exposes them to grief. Nurses’ grief has not been sufficiently addressed in practice settings, although it has been a well-known threat to health and work performance. Design: A qualitative design guided by a phenomenological approach was adopted. Method: Data were collected from a purposive sample of 21 Jordanian nurses by conducting three focus groups and analyzed using Colaizzi’s framework. Findings: Four themes were generated in which participants reported feelings of grief following their patients’ death. Their grief emotions were reported as sadness, crying, anger, shock, denial, faith, fear, guilt, fear of the family’s reaction, and powerlessness. Conclusions: The study provided evidence that nurses respond emotionally to patients’ death and experience grief. Nurses are burdened by recurrent patients’ deaths and try to cope and overcome their grief. This study emphasizes the importance of developing strategies to help nurses positively cope with their grief from a holistic perspective. This will reflect positively on the nurses’ performance. |
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