英文摘要 |
The present study aimed to explore death attitude among clinical nurses which may be used as reference for developing death education as well as designing death attitude scale for clinical nurses and nursing school students. The theory and methodology of both Personal Construct Theory and Pheonomenology were applied to analyze semi-structured interview texts contributed by 21 clinical nurses recruited from the hospitals in Taipei area. Content analysis of these texts found that clinical nurses’ death anxiety arose from facing the death of patients and threat of their own existence. At first, they used natural phenomena, age and health status as unrelated defense mechanism which collapsed when the young, children and relatives were dying or dead. They ought to build-up reliable relationship rapidly with patients and their families that made it more difficult for them to face those patients’ death. Since they did not know how to deal with dying patients’ families, dead patients and their own negative emotion arisen therefor, they have to shape up their own uniqueness and the meaning of their life to cope with it. Thus, it is necessary to educate and assist them how to solve their personal death anxiety and death grief, and to strengthen their skills on helping and communicating with dying patients and their families. |