The paid provision of care for dying persons and their families blends commodified emotion
work and attachments to two often-conflicting role identities: the caring person and the …

The importance of emotional support for dying persons and their families has been well
established, yet we know less about how care workers understand emotional processes …

In this article, the authors select two categories of dying patients,“troubled” and “credible,”
from two larger studies conducted in three palliative care settings. They explore how nurses …

As professionals working in end-of-life care, awareness of our emotional responses to the
people with whom we work is critical for good diagnosis, treatment, and service delivery …

Purpose: To describe the lived experience of nurses surrounding the death of their patients.
Design: A qualitative phenomenologic approach was used for the interview and analysis …

shorter m. & stayt lc (2010) Critical care nurses' experiences of grief in an adult intensive
care unit. Journal of Advanced Nursing66 (1), 159–167. Abstract Title. Critical care nurses' …

Nurses, physicians, social workers, and other caregivers frequently encounter patient deaths
in the course of their professional responsibilities. Although the literature in these fields …

Objective To explore generalist palliative care providers' experiences of emotional labour
when undertaking conversations around palliative and end-of-life care with patients and …

Attending to Mind and Body Page 1 CHAPTER 8 Attending to Mind and Body Engaging the
Complexity of Emotion Practice Among Caring Professionals REBECCA J. ERICKSON • …

Context Patient death is common in long-term care (LTC). Yet, little attention has been paid
to how direct care staff members, who provide the bulk of daily LTC, experience patient …