Nurses’ Experiences and Challenges of Collaborative teamwork for Cancer patients in Palliative Care Wards
Ajayi, Busayo; Hämäläinen, Klaudia (2022)
2022
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Palliative care is a scope of treatment that improves the quality of life of the patient facing life-threatening illness and their families through the prevention and relief of suffering by early identification, thorough assessment, treatment of pain and other non-pharmacological issues like physical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs. Palliative care involves the collaborations between nurses and different health care professionals in health care. Nurses often feel that they are usually not prepared for palliative care delivery and need more expertise and training in the management of pain and symptoms, communication, support and dealing with ethical dilemmas.
The aim of this literature review is to amplify the experiences and challenges of nurses involved in palliative care of cancer patients through collaborative teamwork with patients, patient families, and other healthcare professionals. The purpose of this research is to provide information for new nurses and nursing students on the importance of collaborative teamwork for cancer patients in the palliative care ward.
Three database sources (CINAHL, Medline and Google scholar) were browsed to collect relevant research articles meeting the inclusion criteria. A qualitative content analysis was employed to analyze and extract the data found in 13 articles. After extraction, data were organized by formulating the main themes, and sub-themes. The main themes of experiences expressed by nurses in the palliative care unit were psychological impact, building professional confidence and communication skills in collaborative teamwork
This present study shows the complexity of nurses’ duty in collaborative teamwork in a palliative care unit. The limited research about nurses' experience of a good collaborative teamwork in palliative care for cancer patients makes it difficult to draw conclusions in this area. This study has generated more questions and can be a basis for further research
The aim of this literature review is to amplify the experiences and challenges of nurses involved in palliative care of cancer patients through collaborative teamwork with patients, patient families, and other healthcare professionals. The purpose of this research is to provide information for new nurses and nursing students on the importance of collaborative teamwork for cancer patients in the palliative care ward.
Three database sources (CINAHL, Medline and Google scholar) were browsed to collect relevant research articles meeting the inclusion criteria. A qualitative content analysis was employed to analyze and extract the data found in 13 articles. After extraction, data were organized by formulating the main themes, and sub-themes. The main themes of experiences expressed by nurses in the palliative care unit were psychological impact, building professional confidence and communication skills in collaborative teamwork
This present study shows the complexity of nurses’ duty in collaborative teamwork in a palliative care unit. The limited research about nurses' experience of a good collaborative teamwork in palliative care for cancer patients makes it difficult to draw conclusions in this area. This study has generated more questions and can be a basis for further research