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The Difficulties That Palliative Care Unit Nurses Have While Caring the Dying Patients

Palyatif Bakım Kliniğinde Çalışan Hemşirelerin Ölmekte Olan Hastaya Bakım Vermede Yaşadıkları Zorluklar

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Conclusion: As a result of the study, it was found that nurses had difficulties in caring for the dying patient and meeting the expectations of patients’ relatives, and meanwhile, working in palliative care unit caused changes in their personal characteristics and perspectives on death.

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Objective & Hypothesis:Objective: This study was carried out to determine the difficulties that nurses working at palliative clinic had while caring dying patients.
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Key Findings & Data:The sample consisted of 9 nurses working in the palliative care clinic of a state hospital in Istanbul.
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Conclusion & Impact:Conclusion: As a result of the study, it was found that nurses had difficulties in caring for the dying patient and meeting the expectations of patients’ relatives, and meanwhile, working in palliative care unit caused changes in their personal characteristics and perspectives on death.
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Objective: This study was carried out to determine the difficulties that nurses working at palliative clinic had while caring dying patients. Method: The research was designed as a qualitative research design. The sample consisted of 9 nurses working in the palliative care clinic of a state hospital in Istanbul. Results: The findings of the study were examined under 5 themes which are nurses’ opinions on the concept of death, the difficulties they experience in caring for the dying patient, the difficulties they experience with patients’ relatives, the changes they experience in their private lives and their thoughts about death. When these themes were examined, the difficulties nurses had while providing care to dying patients were to be as follows: feeling the necessity to give constant positive feedback, not being able to communicate, the abundance of intercultural differences, the inability to relieve the pain, the excess of the reactions and expectations of the relatives of the patients, the patients and their families’ not being informed enough about the process by other health personnel. Conclusion: As a result of the study, it was found that nurses had difficulties in caring for the dying patient and meeting the expectations of patients’ relatives, and meanwhile, working in palliative care unit caused changes in their personal characteristics and perspectives on death.

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Amaç: Bu araştırma, palyatif kliniğinde çalışan hemşirelerin ölmekte olan hastaya bakım vermede yaşadıkları zorlukları belirlemek amacıyla yapıldı. Yöntem: Araştırma nitel araştırma tasarımı olarak planlandı. Örneklemini, İstanbul ilinde yer alan bir kamu hastanesinin palyatif bakım kliniğinde çalışan 9 hemşire oluşturdu. Bulgular: Araştırmanın sonucunda elde edilen bulgular; hemşirelerin ölüm kavramına ilişkin düşünceleri, ölmekte olan hastaya bakımda yaşadıkları zorluklar, hasta yakınları ile ilgili yaşadıkları zorluklar, kişisel yaşamlarında yaşadıkları değişiklikler ve ölüm hakkındaki düşünceleri olmak üzere 5 tema altında incelendi. Bu temalar incelendiğinde, hemşirelerin ölmekte olan hastaya bakım vermede yaşadığı zorlukların, hep olumlu geri bildirim verme zorunluğu hissetme, iletişim kuramama, kültürlerarası farklılıkların fazlalığı, acıları dindirememe, hasta yakınlarının tepkilerinin ve beklentilerinin fazlalığı, hasta ve ailelerinin süreç hakkında diğer sağlık personeli tarafından yeterince bilgilendirilmemesi gibi durumlar olduğu belirlendi. Sonuç: Çalışmanın sonucunda, hemşirelerin ölmekte olan hastaya bakım vermede ve hasta yakınlarının beklentilerini karşılamada zorluklar yaşadığı ve aynı zamanda palyatif bakımda çalışmanın kendi kişisel özelliklerinde ve ölüme ilişkin bakış açılarında değişikliklere neden olduğu görüldü.

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CURA, Ş. Ü., ATEŞ, E. (2020). The Difficulties That Palliative Care Unit Nurses Have While Caring the Dying Patients. Journal of Academic Research in Nursing, Cilt: 6 - Sayı: 3, 483–490. https://ajindex.com/articles/206737

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