Awareness of Death and the Nurseʼs Composure

Quint, Jeanne C.

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“…A major reason for this, which is found in the literature, is that the nurses have a general tendency to avoid dying patients and their relatives (Quint 1966, 1967, Caldwell & Mishara 1972, Martin & Collier 1975, Miles 1980, Wallis 1987. Nurses who cannot avoid these patients employ the giving of practical, physical care, as an avenue of escape (MacDonald 1983).…”

Section: Stressmentioning

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“…Several authors have suggested that some nurses' inability to deal with their own grief does affect the care they provide for the patient and relatives (Anderson 1973, Ross 1978, Iveson-Iveson 1985, Wallis 1987. A major reason for this, which is found in the literature, is that the nurses have a general tendency to avoid dying patients and their relatives (Quint 1966, 1967, Caldwell & Mishara 1972, Martin & Collier 1975, Miles 1980, Wallis 1987. Nurses who cannot avoid these patients employ the giving of practical, physical care, as an avenue of escape (MacDonald 1983).…”

Section: Do Nurses and Nurse Managers Need To Be Aware Of Stress?mentioning

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How do nurses deal with their own grief when a patient dies on an intensive care unit, and what help can be given to enable them to overcome their grief effectively?

Spencer

1994

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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There is an expectation that nurses are good at caring for relatives on the death of a patient. Who, though, cares for the nurses? Using both a quantitative and a qualitative approach, this study looks at how nurses overcome their own grief when a patient dies on an intensive care unit. Information was first collected using a questionnaire. Personal grief, however, is a very emotive area, so a proportion of the nurses from the initial study were then asked to take part in a semi-structured interview, to explore their feelings in more depth. The quantitative data were analysed using the computer software Statistical Package for the Social Sciences and the results were related to the interview responses. This showed how nurses deal with their grief, and that many, but not all, felt that the informal support network already present was sufficient. Some nurses, however, felt that a support group would also be helpful and some felt the availability of a counsellor would be useful. All nurses felt that more training about how to deal with their own grief was needed.

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Section: Stressmentioning

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Section: Do Nurses and Nurse Managers Need To Be Aware Of Stress?mentioning

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How do nurses deal with their own grief when a patient dies on an intensive care unit, and what help can be given to enable them to overcome their grief effectively?

Spencer

1994

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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“…In selecting the purposive sample, every attempt was made to identify a nurse authored item for inclusion. Quint (1966) (Benoliel, 1984) was the most frequently cited nurse author; however, her work was focused primarily on aspects of nursing care with the dying patient and attitudes toward death and dying, not specifically on grief or the grieving process. As noted previously, Kubler-Ross (1969), although not a nurse, also was cited frequently, especially by nurse authors.…”

Section: Evolution Of the Concept Of Griefmentioning

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The concept of grief: A foundation for nursing research and practice

Cowles

Rodgers

1991

Research in Nursing & Health

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In spite of the significance of grief as a human response, research to expand knowledge of this phenomenon has been impeded by the existence of a conceptual problem. In this study, a comprehensive and systematic review of both current and classic literature concerning grief was conducted within the disciplines of nursing and medicine. Findings contributed to the definition of grief as a pervasive, highly individualized, dynamic process that often is discussed normatively within professional disciplines. This definition provides not only a synthesis of knowledge concerning grief but a reconceptualization that can promote efforts to clarify this important concept for nursing.

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“…There was a small literature on the care of the dying written by such pioneers as Feifel (1959), Folta (1965), Fox (1959, Glaser and Strauss (1964, 1968, Hinton (1967), Quint (1966Quint ( , 1967, Saunders (1959) and Sudnow (1967). At the time that my colleagues at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry and I were beginning our work, very little had been done on the care of staff working with dying patients (Klagsbrun 1970).…”

Section: The Social Contextmentioning

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One Woman's Thanatological Journey

Vachon

2001

Illness, Crisis & Loss

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Awareness of Death and the Nurseʼs Composure

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How do nurses deal with their own grief when a patient dies on an intensive care unit, and what help can be given to enable them to overcome their grief effectively?

How do nurses deal with their own grief when a patient dies on an intensive care unit, and what help can be given to enable them to overcome their grief effectively?

The concept of grief: A foundation for nursing research and practice

One Woman's Thanatological Journey

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