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Yoğun Bakım Hemşirelerinde Ölüm Algısı

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Perception of Death in Intensive Care Nurses

Abstract

Objective: This research aims to analyze the views of nurses, who have the stressful experience of caring for near-death patients in intensive care units, about death, how caring for these patients affects their perceptions of death, through analogies and drawings. Materials and Methods: A total of 40 intensive care nurses were included in the study. The research data were collected using the interview method, one of the qualitative data collection methods, and the content analysis method was used in the analysis of the data obtained from the interviews. Results: Perceptions of intensive care nurses in the face of the death of patients; physical, emotional, spiritual, cognitive, and behavioral; the purpose of the care given to the near-death patient, physical, psychological, and spiritual; nurses' perception of their own death was presented under the themes of acceptance, escape and fear. Conclusion: In the study, it was determined that the nurses felt sadness and fear in the face of death when they encountered death and the person approaching death, and they experienced inadequacy and helplessness the most during care. As a result of all these findings, it can be recommended to plan in-service training so that intensive care nurses, who are frequently faced with death, can develop appropriate individual coping mechanisms by realizing their own feelings and displaying a positive attitude towards death.

Keywords

Death , Intensive care , Nurse , Qualitative research.

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