Facing death in the clinical practice: a view from nurses in Mexico
Objective. To explore the views of nurses on death in their practice, and their perception about physicians’ actions dealing with terminally ill patients. Materials and methods. Two hundred ninety-five nurses with experience caring for terminally ill patients responded to a questionnaire developed f...
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doaj-8f61988ba5b843078b288f84e79ec3162020-11-25T02:49:56ZengInstituto Nacional de Salud PúblicaSalud Pública de México0036-36341606-79162017-10-01596, nov-dic67568110.21149/841716451Facing death in the clinical practice: a view from nurses in MexicoMa. Luisa Marván0Luis F Oñate-Ocaña1Patricio Santillán-Doherty2Asunción Álvarez-del Río3Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas Universidad VeracruzanaSubdirección de Investigación Clínica Instituto Nacional de CancerologíaDirección Médica Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades RespiratoriasDepartamento de Psiquiatría y Salud Mental Facultad de Medicina Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.Objective. To explore the views of nurses on death in their practice, and their perception about physicians’ actions dealing with terminally ill patients. Materials and methods. Two hundred ninety-five nurses with experience caring for terminally ill patients responded to a questionnaire developed for this study. Results. The majority of participants considered that terminally ill patients should know about their prognosis. Although nearly all nurses said that when a patient brings up the subject and they talk with the patient about death, several of the nurses find it difficult to establish a relationship with these patients. Concerning nurses’ perception about physicians’ actions, they considered that physicians avoid the subject of death with their patients more than the physicians acknowledge. Conclusions. More education and training of physicians and nurses on end-of-life issues is needed to improve communication with dying patients and to provide them with better care.http://www.saludpublica.mx/index.php/spm/article/view/8417nursesdeathnurse-patient relationshipphysicianpatient relationship |
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Ma. Luisa Marván Luis F Oñate-Ocaña Patricio Santillán-Doherty Asunción Álvarez-del Río Facing death in the clinical practice: a view from nurses in Mexico Salud Pública de México nurses death nurse-patient relationship physicianpatient relationship |
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Ma. Luisa Marván Luis F Oñate-Ocaña Patricio Santillán-Doherty Asunción Álvarez-del Río |
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Facing death in the clinical practice: a view from nurses in Mexico |
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Facing death in the clinical practice: a view from nurses in Mexico |
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Facing death in the clinical practice: a view from nurses in Mexico |
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Facing death in the clinical practice: a view from nurses in Mexico |
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Facing death in the clinical practice: a view from nurses in Mexico |
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facing death in the clinical practice: a view from nurses in mexico |
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Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública |
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Salud Pública de México |
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0036-3634 1606-7916 |
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Objective. To explore the views of nurses on death in their practice, and their perception about physicians’ actions dealing with terminally ill patients. Materials and methods. Two hundred ninety-five nurses with experience caring for terminally ill patients responded to a questionnaire developed for this study. Results. The majority of participants considered that terminally ill patients should know about their prognosis. Although nearly all nurses said that when a patient brings up the subject and they talk with the patient about death, several of the nurses find it difficult to establish a relationship with these patients. Concerning nurses’ perception about physicians’ actions, they considered that physicians avoid the subject of death with their patients more than the physicians acknowledge. Conclusions. More education and training of physicians and nurses on end-of-life issues is needed to improve communication with dying patients and to provide them with better care. |
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nurses death nurse-patient relationship physicianpatient relationship |
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