Caring for dying children: nurses' experiences.
Interviews with 25 nurses in this grounded theory study show that when nurses recognized that a child's death was inevitable, they struggled with both grief distress and moral distress. Their distress occurred within the context of the nurse-patient relationship. Nurses employed a range of strategies to manage their distress. Several conditions facilitated or constrained nurses' strategies, and resulted in far-reaching implications both professionally and personally.
Davies
B
B
School of Nursing at University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
Clarke
D
D
Connaughty
S
S
Cook
K
K
MacKenzie
B
B
McCormick
J
J
O'Loane
M
M
Stutzer
C
C
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008875:Middle Aged; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D010371:Pediatric Nursing; D013727:Terminal Care