Nursing Care after Death
Gong, Xi (2012)
Gong, Xi
Kemi-Tornion ammattikorkeakoulu Lapin ammattikorkeakoulu
2012
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201205249813
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201205249813
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Nurses care, help and support patients before they are born, when they are alive and after they die. The starting points of this study were how nurses provide physical care for the dead patients and psychological care for the bereaved families.
The purpose of this study was to describe the role of a nurse when patients die. The aims of this study were that the results of the study could help the nurses’ clinical work and could be used as part of teaching material in post-mortem care or nurses’ communicating skills in the health care unit. The tasks of the study were that how post-mortem care is implemented by nurses, what the challenges are during the process, and how do nurses comfort or support the bereaved families.
The data was collected qualitatively via interviews with two registered nurses from Central Hospital of Kemi in January 2012. The data analysis was completed using con-tent analysis.
The results of the study indicate that when a patient dies, nurses remove all the lines, catheters and tubes from the patients according to the hospital’s policy; clean and dress up the dead patient; provide information, support and comfort to the families. The prin-cipal conclusion was that nurses perform nursing care following the principles of post-mortem care, comfort and support to the bereaved families in an appropriate way. Another crucial conclusion was nurses play indispensable role in people’s life—people are took care by nurses as patients, supported by nurses as patients’ families.
Further research is needed to establish more comprehensive concepts of how to imple-ment post-mortem care according to patients’ religious requirements; and how nurses face the dead patients’ families in extreme situations.
The purpose of this study was to describe the role of a nurse when patients die. The aims of this study were that the results of the study could help the nurses’ clinical work and could be used as part of teaching material in post-mortem care or nurses’ communicating skills in the health care unit. The tasks of the study were that how post-mortem care is implemented by nurses, what the challenges are during the process, and how do nurses comfort or support the bereaved families.
The data was collected qualitatively via interviews with two registered nurses from Central Hospital of Kemi in January 2012. The data analysis was completed using con-tent analysis.
The results of the study indicate that when a patient dies, nurses remove all the lines, catheters and tubes from the patients according to the hospital’s policy; clean and dress up the dead patient; provide information, support and comfort to the families. The prin-cipal conclusion was that nurses perform nursing care following the principles of post-mortem care, comfort and support to the bereaved families in an appropriate way. Another crucial conclusion was nurses play indispensable role in people’s life—people are took care by nurses as patients, supported by nurses as patients’ families.
Further research is needed to establish more comprehensive concepts of how to imple-ment post-mortem care according to patients’ religious requirements; and how nurses face the dead patients’ families in extreme situations.