%0 Journal Article
%T Nurses¡¯ Experiences of Grief Following Patient Death: A Qualitative Approach
%A Abla ¡°Habeeb Allah¡±
%A Arwa Masadeh
%A Atef Hassan Khatib
%A Ghadeer Al-Dweik
%A Hana Abu-Snieneh
%A Inaam A. Khalaf
%A Laila Al-Daken
%A Maysoun Hussein Atoum
%A Mohammad BaniYounis
%A Ruba M. Musallam
%A Rula AL-Rimawi
%J Journal of Holistic Nursing
%@ 1552-5724
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0898010117720341
%X Purpose: To explore the lived experiences of nurses¡¯ feelings, emotions, grief reactions, and coping mechanisms following their patients¡¯ death. Background: On a daily basis, nurses are experiencing patients¡¯ death, which exposes them to grief. Nurses¡¯ grief has not been sufficiently addressed in practice settings, although it has been a well-known threat to health and work performance. Design: A qualitative design guided by a phenomenological approach was adopted. Method: Data were collected from a purposive sample of 21 Jordanian nurses by conducting three focus groups and analyzed using Colaizzi¡¯s framework. Findings: Four themes were generated in which participants reported feelings of grief following their patients¡¯ death. Their grief emotions were reported as sadness, crying, anger, shock, denial, faith, fear, guilt, fear of the family¡¯s reaction, and powerlessness. Conclusions: The study provided evidence that nurses respond emotionally to patients¡¯ death and experience grief. Nurses are burdened by recurrent patients¡¯ deaths and try to cope and overcome their grief. This study emphasizes the importance of developing strategies to help nurses positively cope with their grief from a holistic perspective. This will reflect positively on the nurses¡¯ performance
%K grief
%K death
%K dying
%K experiences
%K support
%K qualitative
%K Jordanian nurses
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0898010117720341