Jornal de Pesquisa Clínica e Bioética

Abstrato

Analysis of Good Death from the Nurses Perspective

Ruchita S

Health professionals working in palliative care have developed an idealized concept of dying which has been labeled the 'good' death. Analysis of good death was to examine the attributes of a good death and explore the changes of the concept over time and its impact on terminally ill patients. The method used for this analysis was the Rodgers’ evolutionary method. Palliative care is a crucial component in improving peoples' endof-life period. It is important to understand the wishes of people at the end of life and the perceptions of their healthcare providers regarding these wishes. As nurses play a key role in patient care, in this study we set out to determine nurses' perceptions regarding what constitutes a “good death”, comparing what they thought their older patients would prefer to their own preferences for their own end-of-life care.