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Nurses' self-regulation after engaging in end-of-life conversations with advanced cancer patients: a qualitative study.
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BMC Nursing . 5/22/2024, Vol. 23 Issue 1, p1-11. 11p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Background: Self-regulation is crucial for nurses who engage in in-depth end-of-life conversations with advanced cancer patients, especially in cultural contexts featuring death taboos. An improved understanding of the self-regulation process of nurses can help them address negative emotions and promote self-growth more effectively. Therefore, this study aimed to explore nurses' self-regulation process after end-of-life conversations with advanced cancer patients. Methods: This study employed a descriptive, qualitative approach. Seventeen nurses from four hospitals and a hospice unit in mainland China were interviewed between September 2022 and June 2023. Data were collected through face-to-face semistructured interviews. A thematic analysis method was used to analyse the data following the guidance of regulatory focus theory. Results: Three main themes were developed: self-regulation antecedents include personality, experience, and support; promotion or prevention is a possible self-regulation process for nurses; both self-exhaustion and self-growth may be the outcomes of self-regulation, as did seven subthemes. Personality tendencies, life experience, and perceived support may affect nurses' self-regulation, thereby affecting their self-regulation outcomes. Conclusions: Nurses exhibit different self-regulatory tendencies and self-regulation outcomes. The provision of peer support and counselling support to nurses is highly important with regard to achieving good self-regulation outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *NURSE-patient relationships
*WORK
*HOSPICE nurses
*CONVERSATION
*QUALITATIVE research
*RESEARCH funding
*INTERVIEWING
*STATISTICAL sampling
*SELF-control
*CANCER patients
*JUDGMENT sampling
*HOSPITALS
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
*THEMATIC analysis
*GAMES
*RESEARCH methodology
*PERSONALITY
*NURSES' attitudes
*TERMINAL care
*COUNSELING
*SOCIAL support
*DATA analysis software
*PSYCHOLOGY of nurses
*EXPERIENTIAL learning
*EDUCATIONAL attainment
*HOSPICE care
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14726955
- Volume :
- 23
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- BMC Nursing
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 177422825
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-024-02016-6