Nurses Grief as a Reaction to Patient Death in Pediatric Units of BPKIHS

Introduction: Grief is a phenomenon that every human being eventually experiences. As healthcare providers who are in close contact with dying patients, nurses are vulnerable to experience grief. However the emotional aspect of nurses' response to the death of patient has already been explored. Objective: Objective of the study were to assess the level of grief that nurses experiences upon the death of patient and factors that affects the level of grief. Material and methods: A descriptive cross sectional study was carried out to assess the nurses' grief as a Reaction to Patient Death in Pediatric Units of BPKIHS. Semi structured questionnaire was designed to obtain nurses personal characteristics, death attitude profile adopted by Wong, Reker and Gesser (1994). Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Result: The result showed that all the nurses showed various level of grief on death of patient of patient they had taken care of. The feeling of grief was more among nurses who were new and recently posted in pediatric wards. Duration of interaction with the patient found to be major appealing factor for grief among nurses. Senior nurses less often miss the patient if the bed was occupied by another patient. Conclusion: All nurses have some degree of grief after death of their patient however it is more among new nurses. Basant Kumar Karn | Upendra Yadav"Nurses Grief as a Reaction to Patient Death in Pediatric Units of BPKIHS" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-3 , April 2018, URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd10822.pdf http://www.ijtsrd.com/medicine/nursing/10822/nurses-grief-as-a-reaction-to-patient-death-in-pediatric-units-of-bpkihs/basant-kumar-karn