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Caring for dying children: nurses' experiences
B Davies1, D Clarke, S Connaughty
1School of Nursing at University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
Pediatric Nursing
|November 1, 1996
Abstract:
Interviews with 25 nurses in this grounded theory study show that when nurses recognized that a child's death was inevitable, they struggled with both grief distress and moral distress. Their distress occurred within the context of the nurse-patient relationship. Nurses employed a range of strategies to manage their distress. Several conditions facilitated or constrained nurses' strategies, and resulted in far-reaching implications both professionally and personally.