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Assuaging death anxiety in older overseas-born Australians of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds hospitalised for end-of-life care
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posted on 2016-01-01, 00:00 authored by Megan-Jane JohnstoneMegan-Jane Johnstone, Alison HutchinsonAlison Hutchinson, Helen Rawson, Bernice RedleyBACKGROUND: Death anxiety is a known phenomenon in older people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (CALD) hospitalised for end-of-life (EOL) care . Little is known about how nurses assuage death anxiety in this population. AIMS: To investigate strategies used by nurses to assuage death anxiety and facilitate a good death in older CALD Australians hospitalised for EOL care. METHODS: Advanced as a qualitative descriptive inquiry, a purposeful sample of 22 nurses was recruited from four Victorian healthcare services. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed using thematic analysis processes. FINDINGS: Nurses used three key strategies: recognising death anxiety; delineating its dimensions; and initiating conventional nursingcaring behaviours to help contain it. Contrary to expectations, cultural similarities rather than differences were found in the strategies used. CONCLUSIONS: Nursing strategies for recognising, delineating, and managing death anxiety in older CALD people hospitalised at the EOL is an important component of quality EOL care.
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Contemporary nurseVolume
52Issue
2-3Pagination
269 - 285Publisher
Taylor & FrancisLocation
Abingdon, Eng.Publisher DOI
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1037-6178eISSN
1839-3535Language
engPublication classification
C Journal article; C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2016, Taylor and FrancisUsage metrics
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