Cargando…

Exploring the Emotional Concerns of Oncology Nurses: A Qualitative Study

BACKGROUND: Nursing care for patients with cancer is related to the nurses' ability to manage their emotions and having appropriate behaviors in the clinical setting. Oncology nurses are emotionally influenced by their communication with cancer patients. Thus, this qualitative study was conduct...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Moghadam, Mahdieh Poodineh, Nasiri, Ahmad, Mahmoudirad, Gholamhossein
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9745857/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36524146
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnmr.ijnmr_258_21
_version_ 1784849240876384256
author Moghadam, Mahdieh Poodineh
Nasiri, Ahmad
Mahmoudirad, Gholamhossein
author_facet Moghadam, Mahdieh Poodineh
Nasiri, Ahmad
Mahmoudirad, Gholamhossein
author_sort Moghadam, Mahdieh Poodineh
collection PubMed
description BACKGROUND: Nursing care for patients with cancer is related to the nurses' ability to manage their emotions and having appropriate behaviors in the clinical setting. Oncology nurses are emotionally influenced by their communication with cancer patients. Thus, this qualitative study was conducted to explore nurses' emotional concerns in oncology wards. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This qualitative content analysis was performed among 14 oncology nurses in the oncology wards of cancer hospitals in the east and southeast of Iran (South Khorasan and Sistan and Baluchestan Provinces). The study participants were selected through purposeful sampling. Data were collected through face-to-face, semi-structured interviews until data saturation was reached from January to September 2020. The interviews were analyzed after being typed word by word, based on Graneheim and Lundman (2004). RESULTS: The themes and subthemes that emerged from the data were related to the emotional concerns of oncology nurses. The main themes included emotional involvement and attachment (feeling of frustration in nurses, nurses' suffering from painful experiences, and nurses' emotional dependence), emotional ambiguity (nurses' uncertainty emotions, avoidance of expressing real emotions, and having a positive mindset to maintain the patient's positive mood), and emotional exhaustion (persistent chronic stress, excessive worrying about possible harms, and feelings of mental and physical exhaustion). CONCLUSIONS: Based on the study results, cancer patient nursing care can be distressing and stressful for nurses. Oncology nurses have many emotional concerns in caring for cancer patients. The experiences of oncology nurses provide new insight into how to manage their emotional concerns.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-9745857
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2022
publisher Wolters Kluwer - Medknow
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-97458572022-12-14 Exploring the Emotional Concerns of Oncology Nurses: A Qualitative Study Moghadam, Mahdieh Poodineh Nasiri, Ahmad Mahmoudirad, Gholamhossein Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res Original Article BACKGROUND: Nursing care for patients with cancer is related to the nurses' ability to manage their emotions and having appropriate behaviors in the clinical setting. Oncology nurses are emotionally influenced by their communication with cancer patients. Thus, this qualitative study was conducted to explore nurses' emotional concerns in oncology wards. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This qualitative content analysis was performed among 14 oncology nurses in the oncology wards of cancer hospitals in the east and southeast of Iran (South Khorasan and Sistan and Baluchestan Provinces). The study participants were selected through purposeful sampling. Data were collected through face-to-face, semi-structured interviews until data saturation was reached from January to September 2020. The interviews were analyzed after being typed word by word, based on Graneheim and Lundman (2004). RESULTS: The themes and subthemes that emerged from the data were related to the emotional concerns of oncology nurses. The main themes included emotional involvement and attachment (feeling of frustration in nurses, nurses' suffering from painful experiences, and nurses' emotional dependence), emotional ambiguity (nurses' uncertainty emotions, avoidance of expressing real emotions, and having a positive mindset to maintain the patient's positive mood), and emotional exhaustion (persistent chronic stress, excessive worrying about possible harms, and feelings of mental and physical exhaustion). CONCLUSIONS: Based on the study results, cancer patient nursing care can be distressing and stressful for nurses. Oncology nurses have many emotional concerns in caring for cancer patients. The experiences of oncology nurses provide new insight into how to manage their emotional concerns. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022-09-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9745857/ /pubmed/36524146 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnmr.ijnmr_258_21 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
spellingShingle Original Article
Moghadam, Mahdieh Poodineh
Nasiri, Ahmad
Mahmoudirad, Gholamhossein
Exploring the Emotional Concerns of Oncology Nurses: A Qualitative Study
title Exploring the Emotional Concerns of Oncology Nurses: A Qualitative Study
title_full Exploring the Emotional Concerns of Oncology Nurses: A Qualitative Study
title_fullStr Exploring the Emotional Concerns of Oncology Nurses: A Qualitative Study
title_full_unstemmed Exploring the Emotional Concerns of Oncology Nurses: A Qualitative Study
title_short Exploring the Emotional Concerns of Oncology Nurses: A Qualitative Study
title_sort exploring the emotional concerns of oncology nurses: a qualitative study
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9745857/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36524146
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnmr.ijnmr_258_21
work_keys_str_mv AT moghadammahdiehpoodineh exploringtheemotionalconcernsofoncologynursesaqualitativestudy
AT nasiriahmad exploringtheemotionalconcernsofoncologynursesaqualitativestudy
AT mahmoudiradgholamhossein exploringtheemotionalconcernsofoncologynursesaqualitativestudy