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Hospice nurses’ emotional challenges in their encounters with the dying
The purpose of this study was to explore nurses’ emotional challenges when caring for the dying in hospices. The study has a qualitative design, and knowledge was developed through a dialectical exchange between theory and data. Ten individual in-depth interviews were conducted with nurses recruited...
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Co-Action Publishing
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4891968/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27258584 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/qhw.v11.31170 |
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author | Ingebretsen, Lina Paola Sagbakken, Mette |
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description | The purpose of this study was to explore nurses’ emotional challenges when caring for the dying in hospices. The study has a qualitative design, and knowledge was developed through a dialectical exchange between theory and data. Ten individual in-depth interviews were conducted with nurses recruited from two hospices in Denmark. Although all of the nurses said that they experienced emotional challenges or felt emotionally touched during their work, the study found a variety of opinions related to the extent to which their emotional reactions should be revealed in their role as a hospice professional. The participants described their emotional challenges as being simultaneously draining and enriching experiences leading to personal and professional growth and development. The study may contribute to increased awareness of emotional challenges for hospice nurses, which involve continuous reflection and balancing between meeting the dying as a human being and meeting the dying as a hospice professional. |
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spelling | pubmed-48919682016-06-10 Hospice nurses’ emotional challenges in their encounters with the dying Ingebretsen, Lina Paola Sagbakken, Mette Int J Qual Stud Health Well-being Empirical Study The purpose of this study was to explore nurses’ emotional challenges when caring for the dying in hospices. The study has a qualitative design, and knowledge was developed through a dialectical exchange between theory and data. Ten individual in-depth interviews were conducted with nurses recruited from two hospices in Denmark. Although all of the nurses said that they experienced emotional challenges or felt emotionally touched during their work, the study found a variety of opinions related to the extent to which their emotional reactions should be revealed in their role as a hospice professional. The participants described their emotional challenges as being simultaneously draining and enriching experiences leading to personal and professional growth and development. The study may contribute to increased awareness of emotional challenges for hospice nurses, which involve continuous reflection and balancing between meeting the dying as a human being and meeting the dying as a hospice professional. Co-Action Publishing 2016-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4891968/ /pubmed/27258584 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/qhw.v11.31170 Text en © 2016 L. P. Ingebretsen & M. Sagbakken http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license. |
spellingShingle | Empirical Study Ingebretsen, Lina Paola Sagbakken, Mette Hospice nurses’ emotional challenges in their encounters with the dying |
title | Hospice nurses’ emotional challenges in their encounters with the dying |
title_full | Hospice nurses’ emotional challenges in their encounters with the dying |
title_fullStr | Hospice nurses’ emotional challenges in their encounters with the dying |
title_full_unstemmed | Hospice nurses’ emotional challenges in their encounters with the dying |
title_short | Hospice nurses’ emotional challenges in their encounters with the dying |
title_sort | hospice nurses’ emotional challenges in their encounters with the dying |
topic | Empirical Study |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4891968/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27258584 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/qhw.v11.31170 |
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