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- Nurses often experience emotional challenges when caring for dying patients, making it a significant burden in their profession.
- The study focused on reflective groups to explore how nurses transition emotionally while providing care, revealing three key themes in their experiences.
- Findings aim to enhance nurses' self-awareness and improve the quality of end-of-life care through shared reflections and understanding of their emotional processes.
Article Abstract
Background: Caring for dying patients is an emotional burden for nurses.
Purpose: This study used reflective groups to explore the process of transition that nurses go through in caring for dying patients.
Methods: We adopted a phenomenological approach. Data were collected from nurses participating in 12 reflective groups. All nurses worked in oncology / hospice units in a general hospital in Taipei. We used thematic analysis to analyze data.
Results: Findings identified a transition in how nurses handled and contained their emotions within three main themes: (1) containing unpredictable reality, (2) cautious "holding back" in discussion, and (3) self-cultivation in order to serve others. These findings led us to extrapolate the three issues of wounded healer, facing others, and altruism in caring.
Conclusions/implications For Practice: This study represented the holding and containing of nurses in caring for dying patients and held group dialogues to facilitate reflection. Findings will be used to facilitate nurse self-awareness and improve end-of-life care quality.
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