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Being-With Dying: Authenticity in End-of-Life Encounters
- Source :
- American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®. 27:377-386
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2010.
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Abstract
- Families and their dying members have notably unmet needs. This is in large part due to health professionals being unprepared to be authentic (emotionally appropriate, purposive, and responsible) in end-of-life encounters. Martin Heidegger’s interpretive phenomenology informed this study, providing background, structures, language, and metaphors to interpret narratives for patterns of authentic being-with dying among nurses who attend to dying. Semistructured interviews elicited tacit knowledge imbedded in the experiences of those nurses and showed how they comport themselves in end-of-life situations. Patterns emerged in a presence of authentic being-with dying, which assisted persons in their transitions toward a peaceful death. Patterns are explicated in a 5-point framework, which paralleled Heidegger’s structures of authentic being-toward-death.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Attitude to Death
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Empathy
Nurse's Role
Phenomenology (philosophy)
Tacit knowledge
Surveys and Questionnaires
Ethics, Nursing
Spirituality
Humans
Medicine
Philosophy, Nursing
Narrative
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Terminal Care
Interpretative phenomenological analysis
business.industry
Communication
Palliative Care
General Medicine
Focus Groups
Middle Aged
Focus group
United States
Female
Nurse-Patient Relations
business
Being with
Social psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19382715 and 10499091
- Volume :
- 27
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....fa84ea78a75af90fbcb34a9afec451b6