Meaning-Making and Managing Difficult Feelings
Providing Front-Line End-of-Life Care
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13627909 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura M Funk (0000-0003-0411-0410, University of Manitoba, corresponding author), Shelly Waskiewich (University of Victoria), Kelli Stajduhar (0000-0003-2381-4712, University of Victoria), K I Stajduhar (University of Victoria) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 23-43 |
| Publication date | 2013-11-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2190/om.68.1.b |
| PMID | 24547663 |
| OpenAlex | W2133142657 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 41 |
Managing grief and difficult emotions related to end-of-life (EOL) care is an often under-recognized part of the work of resident care aides (RCAs). In this interpretive analysis we explore the shared and socially constructed ideas that 11 RCAs in 1 Canadian city employ to make sense of death and the provision of EOL care. RCAs spoke of personal challenges involved in witnessing death and experiencing loss, as well as helplessness and frustration when they could not provide quality EOL care. RCAs invoked "consoling refrains" to manage grief, including "such is life," "they are better off," and "they had a full life." To manage guilt and moral distress, RCAs reminded themselves "I did my best" and "I experience rewards." Though these ideas help RCAs, some may need to be reframed through coaching and mentorship, to prevent unintended negative effects on care or the reproduction of ageist beliefs more broadly
Aesthetics · End-of-life care · Feeling · Front line · Meaning (existential · Meaning-making · Palliative care · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · History · Medicine · Nursing · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues · Patient Dignity and Privacy · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Developing and Implementing Peer-Led Intervention to Support Staff in Long-Term Care Homes Manage Grief
The Changing Nature of Guilt in Family Caregivers
The Problems with Care
Flowering out of the stones
Worker Experiences of the Work Health and Safety Impacts of Exposure to Dying and Death in Clinical Settings
The Emotional Labor of Personal Grief in Palliative Care
The Managed Heart
Meaning Reconstruction in the First Two Years of Bereavement
Moral Imagination in Long-Term Care Workers
The Grief Experiences of Certified Nursing Assistants
The Metaphor of "Family" in Staff Communication About Dying and Death
Direct Care Workers' Response to Dying and Death in the Nursing Home
Bereaved informal cancer carers making sense of their palliative care experiences at home
A discourse of silence
Making sense of loss and benefiting from the experience
Interviewing Family Caregivers
Nurse Assistant Mental Models, Sensemaking, Care Actions, and Consequences for Nursing Home Residents
Exposing failures, unsettling accommodations
Finding dignity in dirty work
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |