End-of-life care in a nursing home : Assistant nurses' perspectives.

2018 
Background:Worldwide, older persons lack access to palliative care. In Sweden, many older persons die in nursing homes where care is provided foremost by assistant nurses. Due to a lack of beds, admission is seldom granted until the older persons have complex care needs and are already in a palliative phase when they move in.Objective:To describe assistant nurses’ perspectives of providing care to older persons at the end of life in a nursing home.Research design:Data were collected in semi-structured individual interviews and analyzed with inductive qualitative content analysis.Participants and research context:Seven assistant nurses from a nursing home in Sweden were randomly selected.Ethical consideration:The research was approved by the local ethics committee.Results:Three main categories emerged; “Death a natural part of life”; “The older person’s well-being”; and “Care in the moment of death”; and seven sub-categories. The assistant nurses described themselves as knowing the older persons well enoug...
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