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http://dx.doi.org/10.14475/kjhpc.2016.19.2.154

The Influence of Terminal Care Performance, Death Anxiety and Self-Esteem on Terminal Care Stress of Geriatric Hospital Nurses  

Kim, Won Soon (College of Nursing, Graduate School, Kosin University)
Cho, Hun Ha (College of Nursing, Kosin University)
Kwon, Suhye (College of Nursing, Kosin University)
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Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care / v.19, no.2, 2016 , pp. 154-162 More about this Journal
Abstract
Purpose: This descriptive study was aimed at identifying the relations among geriatric nurses' terminal care performance, death anxiety and self-esteem and the factors that affect nurses' terminal care stress. Methods: Data were collected using a self-reported questionnaire completed by 212 geriatric hospital nurses working in 10 hospitals in K city and B metropolitan city. Results: The survey results showed that the stress factors were terminal care performance and death anxiety. Significant predictors for terminal care stress were death anxiety and terminal care performance. (And the higher the level of death anxiety and terminal care performance were, the heavier the stress was.) These factors explained 32.5% of the variance in terminal care stress. Conclusion: The results of the study suggested that terminal care performance was an important factor of terminal care stress for geriatric nurses. Therefore, it seems that it is necessary to develop an educational intervention program to improve nurses' terminal care performance to reduce their terminal care stress.
Keywords
Attitude to death; Nurses; Psychological stress; Self concept; Terminal care;
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