The Attitude of Intensive Care and Oncology Nurses Regarding the Care of the Dying Individual and Coping Methods

Year 2022, Volume: 7 Issue: 4, 602 - 608, 10.12.2022

Seda Kurt , Berkay Ertin

https://doi.org/10.26453/otjhs.1134259

Abstract

Objective: This study was designed to determine the attitudes of intensive care and oncology nurses towards the care of the dying individual and their coping methods.

Materials and Methods: The sample of the study consisted of 96 nurses working in intensive care units and oncology clinics in a university hospital between January and February 2020. Data were collected using the Characteristics of the Nurse and The Frommelt Attitude Toward Care of the Dying (FATCOD) scale.

Results: 27.2% of the nurses included in the study were working in Oncology clinics, 72.9% of them in Intensive Care Units, and 45.8% of them were working in the clinic they had been in for 1-5 years. The total FATCOD mean score of the nurses was determined to be 80.04 ± 8.80. It was found that the attitudes of nurses who did not think that death is natural, towards the care of the dying individual were significantly higher (p<0.05).

Conclusion: It was found that attitudes of nurses who did not consider death to be natural were more positive. Considering these results, it may be suggested to organize trainings on social support, with negative and inadequacy feelings coping methods, and end-of-life care for nurses working in oncology and intensive care units.  

Keywords

Attitude, death, intensive care, nurse, oncology

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Thanks

We would like to thank all nurses who agreed to participate in the study.

Yoğun Bakım ve Onkoloji Hemşirelerinin Ölmekte Olan Bireyin Bakımına İlişkin Tutumları ve Baş Etme Yöntemleri

Abstract

Amaç: Bu çalışma; yoğun bakım ve onkoloji hemşirelerinin ölmekte olan bireyin bakımına ilişkin tutumları ve baş etme yöntemlerini belirlemek amacıyla planlandı.

Materyal ve Metot: Araştırmanın örneklemini Ocak-Şubat 2020 tarihleri arasında bir üniversite hastanesinde yoğun bakım ünitelerinde ve onkoloji kliniklerinde çalışan 96 hemşire oluşturdu. Veriler, Hemşireye İlişkin Özellikler ve Frommelt Ölmekte Olan Bireye Bakım Vermeye İlişkin Tutum Ölçeği (FATCOD) kullanılarak toplandı.

Bulgular: Araştırmaya katılan hemşirelerin %27,2’si Onkoloji kliniklerinde, %72,9’u Yoğun Bakım kliniklerinde görev yapmakta olup, %45,8’i 1-5 yıl bulunduğu klinikte çalışmaktaydı. Hemşirelerin FATCOD toplam puan ortalaması 80.04±8.80 olarak bulundu. Ölümün doğal olduğunu düşünmeyen hemşirelerin ölmekte olan bireyin bakımına ilişkin tutumlarının istatistiksel olarak anlamlı düzeyde daha yüksek olduğu belirlendi (p<0,05).

Sonuç: Ölümün doğal olduğunu düşünmeyen hemşirelerin ölmekte olan bireyin bakımına ilişkin tutumlarının daha olumlu olduğu bulundu. Bu sonuçlar doğrultusunda onkoloji ve yoğun bakım ünitesinde çalışan hemşirelere, sosyal destek, olumsuzluk ve yetersizlik duyguları ile baş etme yöntemleri ve yaşam sonu bakım konusunda eğitimler düzenlenmesi önerilebilir. 

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Hemşire, onkoloji, ölüm, tutum, yoğun bakım

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