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KMID : 1025620130160010124
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Korean Journal of Medical Ethics
2013 Volume.16 No. 1 p.124 ~ p.138
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Health Personnel’s Comprehension of Death in Korea
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Jo Kae-Hwa
Kim Gyun-Moo
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to understand the personal meaning of death through the health personnel’s death comprehension.
Methods: A qualitative study design was utilized. Data were collected from the clinical experiences of physicians, nurses, and paramedics. Data were analyzed with qualitative content analysis. The texts were essays written by 43 health personnel’s about the impressions on death through their clinical experience.
Results: There were three themes and fourteen theme clusters classified. The three themes that emerged were: death of human body as a medical failure; death as an occupational neutrality and controled emotion; and conversed death from a bad habit.
Conclusion: The findings suggest a number of themes that health care professionals reported about meaning of death experiences through death metaphor that could be explored as a way of improving end-of-life care.
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KEYWORD
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death, health personnel, comprehension
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