Nurses working with cancer patients in end of life care need to be prepared to encounter
patients' psychosocial and spiritual distress. Aim The aim of this study was to describe …

Objective Encountering dying patients with implicit existential questions requires the nurses
to have positive and comfortable attitude to talking about existential issues. This paper …

udo c., danielson e. & melin‐johansson c.(2013) Existential issues among nurses in surgical
care–a hermeneutical study of critical incidents. Journal of Advanced Nursing69 (3), 569 …

Objective: When registered nurses care for patients at the end of life, they are often
confronted with different issues related to suffering, dying, and death whether working in …

Previous research related to stress among health care staff has highlighted several complex
issues; however, a deeper analysis of the existential components has been lacking. The …

The aim of the study was to highlight nurses' experiences of caring for patients in palliative
care at midlife, and describe their coping strategies. This study used a qualitative …

This article describes a study exploring terminally ill cancer patients' experiences of being in
hospital and the meanings patients assigned to the hospital as their temporary residence …

The overall aim of this thesis was to gain knowledge about the existential crisis in patients
and family members caused by an incurable cancer and how the crisis is managed. Two …

This paper details one of the findings of a large phenomenological study into the effects of
nurse–patient encounters on clinical learning and practice. Every nurse faces the challenge …

Purpose End-of-life (EOL) care is considered to be inherently difficult and vulnerable for
patients and nurses. It also seems hard to develop passion for care during these problematic …