JOMPAC
Journal of Medicine and Palliative Care

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The attitudes of physicians and nurses working in the intensive care unit and palliative care unit towards good death and respectable death principles
Abstract
Objective: It was aimed to evaluate the acceptance of “the principles of respectable death” and their attitude towards “the good death” of physicians and nurses working in palliative care services and intensive care clinics, where deaths are common. Material and Method: Our study is cross-sectional and comprises 21 volunteer physicians and 109 nurses working in the chest intensive care unit, anesthesia intensive care unit 1 and 2, surgical intensive care unit, and palliative care unit 1 and 2 clinics of our hospital. They completed “the good death” scale and “the principles of respectable death” scale. Results: 23.1% of the health care workers included in the study were male (n = 30) and 76.9% were female (n=100). The ages of the employees vary between 20 and 50 and the average age is 30.35±7.69. While 16.2% of the employees included in the study are physicians, 83.8% are nurses/health officers. The Cronbach alpha coefficient for the dimensions of the attitudes towards the principles of respectable death scale was found to be 0.906 and the Cronbach alpha 0.921 for the good death scale. Thus, it was understood that the items in the scale were consistent with each other and evaluating the same feature. Although they did not receive special training on the principles of good death and respectable death, it was found that the physicians and nurses/health officers in our study had a high level of adoption of the principles of good death and respectable death. There is no significant difference between professions in this terms of adoption. Conclusion: Although the physicians and the nurses have a high level of adoption of the principles of respectable death and the good death, physicians and nurses working in intensive care units and palliative care units must be trained to ensure a respectable death and good death of patients.

Keywords : Good death, the principles of respectable death, intensive care, palliative care, nurse

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Article available in :
Volume 2, Issue 3, 2021
Page : 77-85
https://doi.org/10.47582/jompac.954029
Article Information
Received : 17 Haz 2021
Accepted : 17 Tem 2021
Published : 08 Eyl 2021
Corresponding Author :

Murat Yıldız: Department of Pulmonology, Ankara Atatürk Sanatorium Training and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Ankara, Turkiye

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Citation : Yıldız M, Çelik D, Çakır M, Savaşır TD. Yoğun bakım ünitesi ve palyatif bakım servisinde çalışan hekim ve hemşirelerinin iyi ölüme ve saygın ölüm ilkelerine ilişkin tutumları. J Med Palliat Care 2021; 2(3): 77-85.

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