The experience of pre-hospital emergency personnel in breaking death news: a phenomenological study
Abstract Background Today, breaking the death of patients to their families has become one of the challenges for medical staff. Considering the lack of study in the pre-hospital emergency, the present study aimed to explore the experience of pre-hospital emergency personnel regarding the breaking de...
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| description | Abstract Background Today, breaking the death of patients to their families has become one of the challenges for medical staff. Considering the lack of study in the pre-hospital emergency, the present study aimed to explore the experience of pre-hospital emergency personnel regarding the breaking death news to families. Method In this qualitative study with a descriptive phenomenological method, data were collected by purposeful sampling method through in-depth interviews with thirteen pre-hospital emergency personnel in Kermanshah and Kurdistan provinces. After recording and writing the interviews, the data were managed by MAQUDA-10 software and analyzed using the Collaizi approach. Results Of 13 participants, five from Kermanshah, eight from Kurdistan, and 12 (92%) were married. The mean age and work experience were 34.38 and 10.38 years, respectively. Five main extracted themes were 1) perceived stress, 2) challenge factors of breaking death news, 3) unnecessary actions, 4) death breaking precautions, and 5) BDN requirements. They were covered fifteen sub-themes. Conclusion In this study, emergency medical employees were always faced with stress and challenges to announce the patient's death to families, including the stress of violence against employees. Hereof, personnel had to take unnecessary care actions such as slow resuscitation to transfer the patient to the hospital. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9a15b999bc5b472a84669eaf154480902022-12-22T00:39:34ZengBMCBMC Nursing1472-69552022-05-0121111110.1186/s12912-022-00899-xThe experience of pre-hospital emergency personnel in breaking death news: a phenomenological studyReza Safari0Mohammad Mehdi Khashmin1Alireza Abdi2Student Research Committee, Kermanshah University Of Medical SciencesLecturer of Nursing, Emergency and Critical Care Nursing Department, Nursing and Midwifery School, Kermanshah University of Medical SciencesAssociate Professor of Nursing, Emergency and Critical Care Nursing Department, Nursing and Midwifery School, Kermanshah University of Medical SciencesAbstract Background Today, breaking the death of patients to their families has become one of the challenges for medical staff. Considering the lack of study in the pre-hospital emergency, the present study aimed to explore the experience of pre-hospital emergency personnel regarding the breaking death news to families. Method In this qualitative study with a descriptive phenomenological method, data were collected by purposeful sampling method through in-depth interviews with thirteen pre-hospital emergency personnel in Kermanshah and Kurdistan provinces. After recording and writing the interviews, the data were managed by MAQUDA-10 software and analyzed using the Collaizi approach. Results Of 13 participants, five from Kermanshah, eight from Kurdistan, and 12 (92%) were married. The mean age and work experience were 34.38 and 10.38 years, respectively. Five main extracted themes were 1) perceived stress, 2) challenge factors of breaking death news, 3) unnecessary actions, 4) death breaking precautions, and 5) BDN requirements. They were covered fifteen sub-themes. Conclusion In this study, emergency medical employees were always faced with stress and challenges to announce the patient's death to families, including the stress of violence against employees. Hereof, personnel had to take unnecessary care actions such as slow resuscitation to transfer the patient to the hospital.https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-022-00899-xEmergencyPre-hospitalDeathQualitative study |
| spellingShingle | Reza Safari Mohammad Mehdi Khashmin Alireza Abdi The experience of pre-hospital emergency personnel in breaking death news: a phenomenological study BMC Nursing Emergency Pre-hospital Death Qualitative study |
| title | The experience of pre-hospital emergency personnel in breaking death news: a phenomenological study |
| title_full | The experience of pre-hospital emergency personnel in breaking death news: a phenomenological study |
| title_fullStr | The experience of pre-hospital emergency personnel in breaking death news: a phenomenological study |
| title_full_unstemmed | The experience of pre-hospital emergency personnel in breaking death news: a phenomenological study |
| title_short | The experience of pre-hospital emergency personnel in breaking death news: a phenomenological study |
| title_sort | experience of pre hospital emergency personnel in breaking death news a phenomenological study |
| topic | Emergency Pre-hospital Death Qualitative study |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-022-00899-x |
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