Managing Strong Emotions: Nurses’ Recognition and Responses to Personal Emotions When Approaching Parents With Cancer and Their Dependent Children

Abstract

Care for sick parents and their dependent children (<18 years) has become a pertinent issue in health care. Nurses play an important role in caring for parents with cancer as well as their children. By utilizing a constructivist grounded theory approach, the aim of this study was to expand the research-based knowledge of nurses’ experiences of personal emotions in this research field and to develop a subsequent explanatory theory extending the existing concept of emotional labor. Interviews with 12 nurses were conducted and analyzed. The nurses experienced this area of work as particularly emotionally challenging and attempted to manage personal emotions through regulating and processing strategies. Through this process, they sought for emotional strength by balancing their private lives and work lives to manage work-related emotions. An increased awareness of emotional labor may strengthen nurses’ emotional competence in nursing.

Practitioner Experiences Responding to Suicide Risk for Survivors of Human Trafficking in the Philippines

“…Despite the emotional burden practitioners often experience, sufficient training, supervision, and support have been found to alleviate this burden and improve the overall quality of care provided (Hagen et al, 2017;Hansson & Markström, 2014;Marzano et al, 2016;Rothes et al, 2014;Takahashi et al, 2011). These findings are reinforced in work focused on practitioners approaching parents with cancer, in which practitioners experienced a high emotional burden but found that regulating and processing strategies greatly alleviated this process (Tafjord, 2021). Training and clinical supervision and support are integral to equipping practitioners with the skills to manage the emotional burden of working with suicidal clients, as well as setting boundaries to maintain their own mental health and avoid burnout.…”

The Role of Environmental and Geographical Factors in the Education Process

“…Parents play an essential role in assessing the atmosphere and emotions within it. Research shows that large spaces can allow learners to work individually and reduce noise (Tafjord, 2021). This suggests that flexibility in physical space can lead to positive interactions between teachers and learners.…”

The Role of Environmental and Geographical Factors in the Education Process

“…Parents play an essential role in assessing the atmosphere and emotions within it. Research shows that large spaces can allow learners to work individually and reduce noise (Tafjord, 2021). This suggests that flexibility in physical space can lead to positive interactions between teachers and learners (Higgins et al, 2005).…”