When cultural values meets professional values: a qualitative study of chinese nurses' attitudes and experiences concerning death.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In China, there is a culture of death-avoidance and death-denying. Influenced by this distinctive socio-cultural views surrounding death, nurses often find it challenging to handle death and care for dying patients. This study explores the nurses' attitudes and coping strategies concerning death and caring for dying patients in a cultural context of death taboo.

Methods

This research is a qualitative study that employs in-depth, semi-structured interviews with nurses from two major hospitals in Guangzhou, China. Overall, 28 nurses from four departments with high patient death rate were recruited and interviewed. All of the interviews were analyzed thematically.

Results

The nurses who participated in this study expressed attitudes toward death and caring for

SUBMITTER: Tu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9561326 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature