Abstract
Objective: This cross-sectional study was designed to determine the attitudes of intensive care and oncology nurses towards the care of the dying individual and their coping methods.
Materials and Methods: The sample of the study consisted of 96 nurses working in intensive care units and oncology clinics in a university hospital between January and February 2020. Data were collected using the Characteristics of the Nurse and The Frommelt Attitude Toward Care of the Dying (FATCOD) scale.
Results: 27.2% of the nurses included in the study were working in Oncology clinics, while 72.9% of them were working in Intensive Care Units, and 45.8% of them were working in the clinic they had been in for 1-5 years. 43.8% of the nurses stated that they regarded the death event as natural, 60.4% felt grief and sadness, and 45.8% felt despair. The total FATCOD mean score of the nurses was determined to be 80.04 ± 8.80. It was found that the attitudes of nurses who did not think that death is natural, towards the care of the dying individual were significantly higher (p
Publisher
Online Turk Saglik Bilimleri Dergisi
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences,General Environmental Science
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