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Salud Pública de México
versión impresa ISSN 0036-3634
Resumen
MARVAN, Ma. Luisa; ONATE-OCANA, Luis F; SANTILLAN-DOHERTY, Patricio y ALVAREZ-DEL RIO, Asunción. Facing death in the clinical practice: a view from nurses in Mexico. Salud pública Méx [online]. 2017, vol.59, n.6, pp.675-681. ISSN 0036-3634. https://doi.org/10.21149/8417.
Objective:
To explore the views of nurses on death in their practice, and their perception about physicians’ actions dealing with terminally ill patients.
Materials and methods:
Two hundred ninety-five nurses with experience caring for terminally ill patients responded to a questionnaire developed for this study.
Results:
The majority of participants considered that terminally ill patients should know about their prognosis. Although nearly all nurses said that when a patient brings up the subject and they talk with the patient about death, several of the nurses find it difficult to establish a relationship with these patients. Concerning nurses’ perception about physicians’ actions, they considered that physicians avoid the subject of death with their patients more than the physicians acknowledge.
Conclusions:
More education and training of physicians and nurses on end-of-life issues is needed to improve communication with dying patients and to provide them with better care.
Palabras llave : nurses; death; nurse-patient relationship; physician-patient relationship.