Background: There is an increased number of patients who need palliative care. The aim of palliative care is to ease suffering, to support the patients at the end of life and their relatives. Patients express that it is significant to preserve dignity and ability to continue living in accordance with their own norms and values. Purpose: The purpose was to provide an overview of nurses' experiences for caring patients at the end of life. Method: A literature review was applied in which eight qualitative and two quantitative articles were analyzed. Results: Four themes emerged that illuminated nurses' experiences of palliative care at the end of life. The themes were nurses' responsibility and caring, obstacles for nursing care, nurses’ emotional management, inadequate competence, and the need for knowledge development. Conclusions: Nurses experienced that the care they provided focuses on palliative patients' needs and is there based on a holistic view. Time constraints due to patients’ overload and understaffing, and a lack of experience were perceived by nurses as obstacles in palliative care. To manage emotions and increase nurses' knowledge of palliative care, nurses considered the need for knowledge development.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mdh-66213 |
| Date | January 2024 |
| Creators | Mohamed, Samsam Ali, Abdi Mohamud, Amina |
| Publisher | Mälardalens universitet, Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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