The Lived Experiences of Nurses Caring For Dying Pediatric Patients
Title
The Lived Experiences of Nurses Caring For Dying Pediatric Patients
Creator
Curcio DL
Publisher
Pediatric Nursing
Date
2017
Subject
Nursing Care
Description
Nurses and healthcare professionals may have difficulty adjusting to and comprehending their experiences when a patient's life ends. This has the potential to interfere with patient care. Reflection on past events and actions enables critical discovery of strategies to benefit both nurses and patients. This qualitative phenomenological study explores the lived experiences of nurses caring for dying pediatric patients. The philosophical underpinning of Merleau-Ponty (2008), in combination with the research method of van Manen (1990), was used for this study. The Roy Adaptation Model (RAM) (Roy, 2009; Roy & Andrews, 1991) was the nursing model that guided the study to help understand that nurses are an adaptive system, using censoring as a compensatory adaptive process to help function for a purposeful cause. Nine female nurse participants with one to four years of experience were interviewed. The context of the experiences told by nurses caring for dying pediatric patents uncovered seven essential themes of empathy, feelings of ambivalence, inevitability, inspiration, relationship, self-preservation, and sorrow, and these themes demonstrated a connection formed between the nurse and the patient.
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April 2018 List
Collection
Citation
Curcio DL, “The Lived Experiences of Nurses Caring For Dying Pediatric Patients,” Pediatric Palliative Care Library, accessed February 6, 2025, https://pedpalascnetlibrary.omeka.net/items/show/15107.