Cultural aspects of death notification following cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Journal of Advanced Nursing
Hadi HassankhaniSondra Heaston

Abstract

To explore the lived experience of resuscitation team members involved in notifying family members when a patient dies following a resuscitation event in an Iranian cultural context. Death notification to the family is indeed a difficult and an important issue for resuscitation team members. The way health professionals deliver news to family members should incorporate elements of sensitivity, timing and adequate clinical explanations with emphasis on the efforts made by the professionals during the resuscitation. A phenomenological study. Over a period of 5 months (June 2016-November 2016) eleven nurses and six physicians were interviewed using an in-depth interview process applying Van Manen's hermeneutic phenomenological approach for data collection and analysis. The participants were recruited from six tertiary hospitals in Tabriz, Iran. There were two main themes that emerged from the data analysis including: "contributing factors on the impact of notification" and "notification strategies". A further 13 subthemes emerged under the main themes. Several culturally related issues emerged with the participants feeling more comfortable informing male rather than female relatives about the death of the patient following a resus...Continue Reading

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