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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...
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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 |
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author | Moghadam, Mahdieh Poodineh Nasiri, Ahmad Mahmoudirad, Gholamhossein |
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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. |
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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 |
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