Maria Filomena Passos Teixeira Cardoso1,2,3, Olga Maria Pimenta Lopes Ribeiro4,5, Maria Manuela Ferreira Pereira da Silva Martins5,6. 1. Universidade do Porto (UP), Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Programa Doutoral em Ciências de Enfermagem. Porto, Portugal. 2. Centro Hospitalar de São João (CHSJ), Departamento de Enfermagem. Porto Portugal. 3. Universidade Fernando Pessoa (UFP), Departamento de Enfermagem. Porto, Portugal. 4. Escola Superior de Saúde de Santa Maria (ESSSM), Departamento de Enfermagem. Porto, Portugal. 5. Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde (CINTESIS). Porto, Portugal. 6. Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto (ESEP). Porto, Portugal.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To identify nurses' agreement on nursing conceptions with the potential to support their practice in the death and dying process context. METHOD: An exploratory and descriptive study with a quantitative approach was carried out with 3,451 nurses from 36 hospitals in Portugal, from July 2015 to March 2016. Data collection was carried out with the use of questionnaires and data analysis was carried out by means of descriptive and inferential statistics. RESULTS: Among conceptions with the potential to support practice, nurses highlighted those from Virginia Henderson, Afaf Meleis, and Madeleine Leininger. The following variables influenced the degree of agreement: region, service, gender, professional training, and length of professional practice. CONCLUSION: Considering current challenges of a practice that is mostly based on meeting needs, the relevance of nursing practices' purposes emerges in order to facilitate experiencing death and the dying process in culturally significant ways.
OBJECTIVE: To identify nurses' agreement on nursing conceptions with the potential to support their practice in the death and dying process context. METHOD: An exploratory and descriptive study with a quantitative approach was carried out with 3,451 nurses from 36 hospitals in Portugal, from July 2015 to March 2016. Data collection was carried out with the use of questionnaires and data analysis was carried out by means of descriptive and inferential statistics. RESULTS: Among conceptions with the potential to support practice, nurses highlighted those from Virginia Henderson, Afaf Meleis, and Madeleine Leininger. The following variables influenced the degree of agreement: region, service, gender, professional training, and length of professional practice. CONCLUSION: Considering current challenges of a practice that is mostly based on meeting needs, the relevance of nursing practices' purposes emerges in order to facilitate experiencing death and the dying process in culturally significant ways.
Authors: Maria Filomena Passos Teixeira Cardoso; Maria Manuela Ferreira Pereira da Silva Martins; João Miguel Almeida Ventura-Silva; Paulo Emílio Mota; Paula Cristina Rodrigues Costa; Olga Maria Pimenta Lopes Ribeiro Journal: Porto Biomed J Date: 2022-02-08