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KMID : 0895920140160020118
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Journal of Korean Gerontological Nursing
2014 Volume.16 No. 2 p.118 ~ p.129
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Nurses’ Experience of End-of Life Care for Older Adults
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Ahn Soo-Yeon
Kim Hee-Kyung
Kong Eun-Suk
Kim Nam-Cho
Kim Chun-Gill
Song Mi-Soon
Lee Young-Whee
Chang Sung-Ok
Cho Myung-Ok
Choi Kyung-Sook
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study was designed to provide qualitative data to explore the nurses’ experience of caring for elders who are dying.
Methods: Data were collected from ten nurses who had experiences in nursing elders who were dying and receiving care in long term care facilities in Korea. Analysis of data was done by conventional content analysis.
Results: In this study, 8 essential themes were extracted; ’beginning of dying with uncertainty’, ’approaching death in daily life’, ’effort for medical intervention’, ’arranging the last meeting with significant others’, ’becoming elder’s family member inside who shared elder’s life’, ’rumination about the situation of elders’ dying and accumulated experience, ’empirical understanding and coping with human death’, ’results depends on nurses‘role’
Conclusion: The results of the study suggest that nursing care manuals and prediction tools regarding end-of-life care for elders need to be developed and preparation of advance directives for elders in the long-term care settings should be required.
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KEYWORD
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Elder, End-of life, Nurses, Qualitative research
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