Bereavement care interventions and outcome criteria planned by community nurses in the Canary Islands

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Nursing care in bereavement is complex. Primary health care is the ideal setting to support the bereaved, but we do not know much about the care plans designed by primary health care nurses in the treatment of grief.

OBJECTIVE: To identify the outcomes criteria and interventions planned by nurses for mourners with and without complications in the Canary Islands.

METHOD: Retrospective longitudinal study, using the electronic health records of the Canary Islands health service of people with a diagnosis of grieving, risk of complicated grieving and complicated grieving, in the period 2009-2014.

RESULTS: NOC outcomes criteria were recorded in 67% of the mourners, and up to 24 different outcomes were identified. The main outcomes measures were Grief resolution; Psychosocial adjustment, Life change; Coping; Family coping; Family social climate and Caregiver emotional health. The remaining outcomes were present in less than 1% of the mourners. Although the outcomes criteria proposed by nurses in the mourners with and without complications were quite homogeneous, differences in interventions were found. In 67% of the cases, NIC interventions were reported. Ninety-nine different interventions were identified in the mourners; the most frequent were Emotional support; Grief work facilitation; Active listening; Coping enhancement and counselling. The remaining identified interventions were present in less than 5% of patients. The main interventions in the mourners with complications were Grief work facilitation; Coping enhancement; Active listening; Counselling and Family integrity promotion.

CONCLUSION: Nurses state that there are more interventions and outcomes in mourners with complications. Given the few methodologically reliable studies that prove their effectiveness, continued research in this area is recommended.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2018

Erschienen:

2018

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2018

Enthalten in:

Enfermeria clinica (English Edition) - (2018) vom: 19. Feb.

Sprache:

Englisch

Weiterer Titel:

Intervenciones y criterios de resultado planificados por las enfermeras comunitarias en la atención al duelo en Canarias

Beteiligte Personen:

Rodríguez-Álvaro, Martín [VerfasserIn]
García-Hernández, Alfonso Miguel [VerfasserIn]
Brito-Brito, Pedro Ruymán [VerfasserIn]
Aguirre-Jaime, Armando [VerfasserIn]
Fernández-Gutiérrez, Domingo Ángel [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Atención Primaria
Duelo
Grief
Journal Article
Nursing Process
Primary health
Proceso de Enfermería

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Date Revised 27.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status Publisher

doi:

10.1016/j.enfcli.2017.11.005

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM281303266