Self-Care under Death Anxiety: Take Hospice Nurses as Example

Study of Life and Death 1 (3):133-164 (2006)
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In this paper, the death anxiety of nurses in peace under the theme of self-care, purposive sampling, a regional teaching hospital in Chiayi thirteen hospice nurses in this study. Through the interpretation of the guidelines for the phenomenological method, and the existence of psychoanalytic interpretation point of view, will be reading from the ward, the field of clinical information on participant observation and depth interviews with the formation of draft text, for self-care nursing experience peaceful nature and substance of the description and interpretation . The study found that a positive response to death anxiety peace nurses self-care experience, mainly related to "the original self-Ring", "coexistence with the frustration and anxiety," "self-reflection," "self-transcendence" and experience the theme of stage history. And the deepening of self-care, nurses will bring the value system of self-transformation, and death accompanied by qualitative effect relationship. The main contribution of this study is to reveal the original self-self-care nursing position in the tranquil heart of the work, and individual reflection beyond the specific experience of showing the nature and content. In this study, although limited to the tranquility of cases nurses, but the experience of exploring the coexistence of death anxiety, but letters were similar to other professional experience to help others research, inspired by Italy with a certain degree of Xi. In addition, Po works in clinical applications, there are also the most relevant training courses ANNOUNCEMENT reference. The thesis of this paper is self-care of hospice nurses under death anxiety. Thirteen hospice nurses of a local general hospital were selected as research participants by purpose-sampling method. Guided by hermeneutic-phenomenological approach, the researchers take existential-psychoanalytical perspective as the standpoint. The research data were collected by field participating observation and depth-interview. The research text was, then, described and interpreted in terms of the essence and meanings of self-care experience of those hospice nurses. The research finds that the self -care experience of hospice nurses in response to death anxiety mainly involves a series of phases like "presence of the primordial self," "to be terms with frustration and anxiety," "self-reflection," and "self-transcendence." As the self-care wok goes deeper, the nurses will be likely to bring their self-value system into change, as well as qualitatively improve their caring relationship with dying patients. One of the major contributions of this research is to reveal the fact that the "primordial self" situation lies in the central position of self-care work of hospice nurses, and thereby present the experiential essence and contents of how the individual reflects and transcends the situation. Although the research participants are restricted to hospice nurses, the death anxiety managing experience involved may be applied to other researches on helping professionals' self-care work. Besides, the hospice training courses also could be benefited and inspired

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