Book chapter
Grief, Self-Care, and Staff-Care: Repeated Loss in the Nursing Home Environment
Transforming Palliative Care in Nursing Homes, p.281
Columbia University Press
02/12/2010
DOI: 10.7312/bern13224.15
Abstract
Previous chapters have established that nursing homes are a prominent location of end-of-life care for older adults in the United States (Lopez 2007). In this chapter, we will focus on the effects that working in a nursing home with dying residents can have on the staff. Nursing home staff members encounter the deaths of multiple residents every year. Each death, to a varying degree, affects their emotional and psychological well-being. Some staff members will view their work with dying individuals as a privilege, a final gift that they can give to beloved residents, such as Ingrid at the onset of
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Grief, Self-Care, and Staff-Care: Repeated Loss in the Nursing Home Environment
- Creators
- SARA SandersPATTI Anewalt
- Contributors
- MERCEDES BERN-KLUG (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Transforming Palliative Care in Nursing Homes, p.281
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- DOI
- 10.7312/bern13224.15
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/12/2010
- Academic Unit
- Liberal Arts and Science Admin; Social Work; International Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9984307244202771
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