@article{8046510,
  abstract     = {{Aim: To explore how nurses and care-assistants (nursing staff) working in six Flemish nursing homes experience and describe their involvement in grief care.
Background: Although grief in older people is widely described in literature, less is known about how nursing staff in nursing homes offer and perceive grief care.
Design: A qualitative research design with elements of constructivist grounded theory was used.
Methods: Loosely structured face-to-face interviews were done with fourteen nurses and care-assistants. Data were collected from October 2013 - March 2014. Interview transcripts were analysed using the Qualitative Analysis Guide of Leuven (QUAGOL) method with support of NVivo 10.
Findings: Grief care in nursing homes is characterized by a complex tension between two care dimensions: (1) being involved while keeping an appropriate distance; and (2) being while doing. Nursing staff described key enablers and influencing factors for grief care at the level of both the individual and the organizational context.
Conclusion: Findings suggest an established personal sensitivity for grief care considered from the nursing staff points of view. Nevertheless, a common denominator was the necessity to further develop a supportive and multidisciplinary grief care policy ingrained in the existing care culture. Suggested components of this grief care policy are: (a) centring attention on non-death-related loss and the cumulative nature of loss in residents; (b) building capacity by means of reflective practices; and (c) the importance of self-care strategies for nursing staff. Further, the findings from this study point towards a need for education and training.}},
  author       = {{Van Humbeeck, Liesbeth and Dillen, Let and Piers, Ruth and Van Den Noortgate, Nele}},
  issn         = {{0309-2402}},
  journal      = {{JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING}},
  keywords     = {{care-assistants,grief,loss,nurses,nursing,nursing home,older people,QUALITATIVE DATA-ANALYSIS,DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS,OF-LIFE,BEREAVEMENT,EXPERIENCES,RESIDENTS,COMMUNICATION,HEALTH,DEATH,WORK}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{12}},
  pages        = {{3125--3136}},
  title        = {{Grief and loss in older people residing in nursing homes : (un)detected by nurses and care assistants?}},
  url          = {{http://doi.org/10.1111/jan.13063}},
  volume       = {{72}},
  year         = {{2016}},
}

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