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Mourning: a concern for medical-surgical nurses
Medsurg Nursing : Official Journal of the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses
|August 1, 1993
Summary
Medical-surgical nurses facilitate peaceful deaths and healthy grieving by listening to patients and families. Incorporating mourning tasks aids bereaved individuals across cultures, enhancing nursing practice and satisfaction.
Area of Science:
- Nursing
- Bereavement Care
- Palliative Care
Background:
- Medical-surgical nurses are crucial in supporting dying patients and their families.
- Effective support during end-of-life care impacts patient comfort and family coping.
- Facilitating grief is a key nursing responsibility.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore the role of medical-surgical nurses in facilitating grief and mourning.
- To examine how nurses can support dying patients and bereaved families.
- To highlight the utility of mourning tasks as a framework for nursing practice.
Main Methods:
- Qualitative analysis of nursing roles in end-of-life care.
- Literature review on grief facilitation and mourning processes.
- Application of mourning tasks framework to nursing interventions.
Main Results:
- Nurses can promote peaceful death through active listening and emotional support.
- Early intervention by nurses aids family healing before patient death.
- Nurses can guide surviving family members toward healthier mourning patterns.
- The tasks of mourning provide a culturally sensitive framework for bereaved care.
Conclusions:
- Nurses play a vital role in facilitating peaceful death and healthy grieving.
- Integrating the tasks of mourning enhances nursing care for the bereaved.
- This approach increases nursing job satisfaction in end-of-life care.