Strategies for coping with the death of the paediatric patient

The objective of the study is to describe the nursing staff's coping strategies when faced with the death of a pediatricpatient in the Critical Care and Hemato-Oncology Services. The research work is quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional,applied to 32 nurses who carry out their work in the...

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Autores principales: Escobar, Liliana H., Fernández, Stella M., Montenegro, Olga I., Avalos, Daisi, Medina, Oscar A.
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Sanatorio Allende. Departamento de enfermería 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/notasenf/article/view/30836
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Sumario:The objective of the study is to describe the nursing staff's coping strategies when faced with the death of a pediatricpatient in the Critical Care and Hemato-Oncology Services. The research work is quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional,applied to 32 nurses who carry out their work in the Critical Care and Hemato-Oncology Service of a public pediatric Hospital, by means of a questionnaire based on the Measurement Scale of the Coping and Adaptation Process by Callista Roy. According to the results, it was obtained that the nurses have a high capacity to face death with 75%. In the present study, it was observed that the nursing staff has a high degree of capacity to cope with the death of the pediatric patient in the Critical Care and Hemato-oncology Service of a public Pediatric Hospital in Corrientes.