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Exploring Spanish emergency nurses’ lived experience of the care provided for suddenly bereaved families
Author(s) -
Socorro Lourdes López,
Tolson Debbie,
Fleming Valerie
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2648.2001.01872.x
Subject(s) - nursing , perspective (graphical) , meaning (existential) , emergency nursing , emergency department , hermeneutic phenomenology , qualitative research , medicine , health care , psychology , lived experience , sociology , psychotherapist , social science , artificial intelligence , computer science , economics , economic growth
Exploring Spanish emergency nurses’ lived experience of the care provided for suddenly bereaved familiesAim of the study. To investigate the experience of emergency nurses caring for suddenly bereaved family members in the clinical setting, particularly after they are informed about the loss of a loved one. Design/methods. Data was obtained from semi‐structured interviews with seven emergency nurses drawn from emergency nursing staff working in a Spanish Hospital. Interviews were tape recorded, and hermeneutic‐phenomenological analysis was applied to gain understanding from the emergency nurses’ experiences. Setting. The Accident and Emergency department in the Hospital Universitario Insular de Gran Canaria (Spain). Study undertaken in partial fulfillment of the main author’s MSc (Department of Nursing and Community Health) at Glasgow Caledonian University. Results. Several themes emerged from those interviews, which appeared to form the basis of the emergency nurses’ reality: knowing, relationships, culture and reality. They showed the need to reflect on personal and professional experiences to facilitate personal growth, discover meaning for emergency nurses and examine the possible implications for clinical care. Conclusions. This study enabled both participants and the researcher to evaluate critically what was troublesome from their perspective and to identify sources of innovation and liberation within everyday practices.