The impact of death and dying on the personhood of senior nurses at the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS): a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A nurse's role in caring for the dying is fraught with ethical, professional, and psychosocial challenges that impact how they perceive their roles as professionals. When unsupported, nurses caring for the dying experience burnout, career dissatisfaction and leave the profession. Better understanding of how caring for the dying affects the professional identity formation (PIF) of nurses will guide efforts to better support nurses.

Methods

Guided by new data on the subject, we adopt the theoretical lens of the Ring Theory of Personhood (RToP) to evaluate how caring for the dying impacts the values, beliefs, principles, professional identities and personhood of nurses. We employ Krishna's Systematic Evidence-Based Approach (SEBA) to guide the design and piloting of

SUBMITTER: Ho CY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9121572 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature