title: Responding to the cues of suffering.
abstract: Enduring and suffering are fundamental and normal responses to catastrophic loss, yet strangely these two basic states have not been extensively explored using qualitative methods. Both states occur commonly as a human response to illness, injury, and bereavement, and it is the role of professional caregivers to respond to people who are in distress. In this article, I distinguish between states of enduring and suffering, discuss the distinctly different and appropriate comforting strategies to be used with each, and conclude by presenting questions for future research.
authors.affiliation: International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Janice.Morse@ualberta.ca
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Morse
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D003463:Cues; D006117:Grief; D006379:Helping Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods; D010146:Pain / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology*