How do members of an interprofessional clinical team adjust to hospice care?
A study was carried out involving interviewing and facilitating a workshop for members of an interprofessional hospice team: nurses, doctors, a physiotherapist, a chaplain and a counsellor. Its aim was to explore how the members adjusted to working with people who are dying and people who are bereaved and whether a developmental model of adjustment from American hospital social work practice could be applied to British interprofessional hospice care. It was found that all participants experienced adjustment to hospice care as a continuous rather than a developmental process with an end point.
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St Catherine's Hospice, Crawley, West Sussex, UK.
D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001293:Attitude to Death; D001601:Bereavement; D005260:Female; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000523:psychology; D017051:Hospice Care; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011582:Psychological Theory