Assuaging death anxiety in older overseas-born Australians of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds hospitalised for end-of-life care Johnstone, Megan-Jane, Hutchinson, Alison, Rawson, Helen and Redley, Bernice 2016, Assuaging death anxiety in older overseas-born Australians of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds hospitalised for end-of-life care, Contemporary nurse, vol. 52, no. 2-3, pp. 269-285, doi: 10.1080/10376178.2016.1192953. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads johnstone-assuagingdeath-post-2016.pdf Accepted version application/pdf 210.69KB 31 Title Assuaging death anxiety in older overseas-born Australians of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds hospitalised for end-of-life care Author(s) Johnstone, Megan-Jane Hutchinson, Alison orcid.org/0000-0001-5065-2726 Rawson, Helen orcid.org/0000-0001-5363-729X Redley, Bernice orcid.org/0000-0002-2376-3989 Journal name Contemporary nurse Volume number 52 Issue number 2-3 Start page 269 End page 285 Total pages 17 Publisher Taylor & Francis Place of publication Abingdon, Eng. Publication date 2016 ISSN 1839-3535 Keyword(s) Australia aged anxiety death hospitalisation immigrants nurses terminal care Summary BACKGROUND: Death anxiety is a known phenomenon in older people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (CALD) hospitalised for end-of-life (EOL) care . Little is known about how nurses assuage death anxiety in this population. AIMS: To investigate strategies used by nurses to assuage death anxiety and facilitate a good death in older CALD Australians hospitalised for EOL care. METHODS: Advanced as a qualitative descriptive inquiry, a purposeful sample of 22 nurses was recruited from four Victorian healthcare services. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed using thematic analysis processes. FINDINGS: Nurses used three key strategies: recognising death anxiety; delineating its dimensions; and initiating conventional nursingcaring behaviours to help contain it. Contrary to expectations, cultural similarities rather than differences were found in the strategies used. CONCLUSIONS: Nursing strategies for recognising, delineating, and managing death anxiety in older CALD people hospitalised at the EOL is an important component of quality EOL care. Language eng DOI 10.1080/10376178.2016.1192953 Field of Research 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 920210 Nursing HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal ERA Research output type C Journal article Copyright notice ©2016, Taylor and Francis Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30084148 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health School of Nursing and Midwifery Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 10 Jun 2016, 14:49:36 EST Fri, 10 Jun 2016, 14:50:30 EST Sat, 11 Jun 2016, 05:00:39 EST Thu, 16 Jun 2016, 11:37:26 EST Fri, 17 Jun 2016, 06:11:10 EST Tue, 23 Aug 2016, 10:08:01 EST Tue, 23 Aug 2016, 10:10:45 EST Tue, 23 Aug 2016, 10:12:59 EST Thu, 25 Aug 2016, 15:47:17 EST Thu, 25 Aug 2016, 15:48:15 EST Wed, 05 Oct 2016, 14:04:51 EST Wed, 05 Oct 2016, 14:07:56 EST Thu, 13 Oct 2016, 10:31:29 EST Thu, 13 Oct 2016, 11:12:14 EST Wed, 09 Nov 2016, 11:19:23 EST Fri, 04 May 2018, 14:07:26 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 18:24:37 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 4 times in TR Web of Science Cited 4 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 289 Abstract Views, 36 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 10 Jun 2016, 14:50:30 EST

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