Nurses grief, emotional experiences and emotion management When the patient dies | ||||
| Zagazig Nursing Journal | ||||
| Article 16, Volume 11, Issue 1 - Serial Number 2015, 2015, Page 216-234 PDF (308.86 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.12816/0029272 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Yosr Mohamed El-Masri1; Safaa Mohamed Metwaly2 | ||||
| 1Assistant Prof. of Psychiatric Nursing- Faculty of Nursing- Mansoura University, | ||||
| 2Lecturer of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing- Faculty of Nursing- Zagazig University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Back ground: As health care professionals, nurses experience patient death as part of their paid work, personal narratives from nurses themselves suggest that they grieve the deaths of individuals for whom they have cared. Aim of the study: was to determine how nurses experience grief, explore the nurses' emotional reaction when a patient dies & examine the extent to which nurses' manage their emotion. Subjects & Methods: Research design: A descriptive cross-sectional research design was used to achieve the study aim. Setting: the current study was conducted at intensive care units in Zagazig University Hospitals. Subjects: The sample was composed of 145 female nurses. Tool of data collection: One tool was used for data collection: "Nurses and Grief questionnaire". Results: The study result indicated that studied nurses strongly feel tired, tens, and grief; moderately anxious; slightly depressed, and rarely feeling guilty, experience job burnout" chronic grief", 50.3% of the nurses reported that they feel every day" dread getting up in the morning and having to face another day on the job", and more than half of them 57.9% reported that every day their "work really puts a lot of strain on them", 43.4% reported that they usually experience "restlessness", and they mutually was used both suppressive and evocative emotion managements. Conclusion: It was concluded that when the patient die the studied nurses strongly feel tired, tens, and grief and rarely feeling guilty. They experience job burnout “chronic grief" and restlessness, and mutually was used both suppressive and evocative emotion managements. Recommendations: It is recommended that, the hospital need to provide more formal support services to health care professionals when a patient dies and attention to the management of grief-related emotion and the psychological toll it takes on nurses must be addressed if nurses are to remain in their careers long-term. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Nurses; grief; patient dies emotional experience; emotion management | ||||
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