title: [The head nurse faced with nurses' rites of passages].
abstract: The caregivers, faced with a death, have repetitive and meaningless attitudes. The concept of rite, developed by Pierre CAZE-NEUVE, reveals that a rite can be characterized by three elements: stereotyped, repetitive and meaningless. The passage rite is made up of three steps: separation, margin and aggregation. The passage rites are defence mechanisms installed by the caregivers to fight against an element which they do not master, the death of a patient. The role of the head nurse can come in three forms: a protection role in order to give caregivers good working conditions, an attention faced with the limits of the rite as well as a vigilance faced with negative rites.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Foulon
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001293:Attitude to Death; D001494:Baths; D002562:Ceremonial Behavior; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005239:Fear; D005655:Funeral Rites; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000523:psychology*; D024802:Nurse's Role; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology*; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D013240:Stereotyping