Regaining Autonomy in a Holding Environment: Patients’ Perspectives on the Existential Communication with Physicians When Suffering from a Severe, Chronic Illness: A Qualitative Nordic Study

Andersen, Aida Hougaard; Illés, Zsolt; Roessler, Kirsten Kaya

doi:10.1007/s10943-022-01658-7

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“…They can promote meaningful connection by advocating for exceptions to visitation policies, rearranging equipment, creating therapeutic spaces, and offering moments of deliberate slowness to counteract the “busyness” of clinical care 39. Providing relational care entails not only being polite or friendly, but also creating an authentic relationship in which a person's vulnerability and existential oscillations between suffering and growth are welcomed and witnessed 40. Authentic relationships start with being present—not trying to fix, change, or do 21.…”

Section: Elements Of Existential Carementioning

confidence: 99%

“…39 Providing relational care entails not only being polite or friendly, but also creating an authentic relationship in which a person's vulnerability and existential oscillations between suffering and growth are welcomed and witnessed. 40 Authentic relationships start with being present-not trying to fix, change, or do. 21 Nurses can support relationship building by encouraging patients to connect with significant others, engage reciprocally, and facilitate legacy building.…”

Section: Grounding Care Firmly In Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Existential Care in Daily Nursing Practice

Tarbi,

Broden,

Rosa

et al. 2023

AJN, American Journal of Nursing

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Relationship-centered palliative nursing during serious illness requires existential care. Yet, multilevel systemic barriers hinder nurses' ability to provide this care. The authors suggest ways to navigate these barriers, highlighting existential care priorities that nurses can attend to in their daily practice. These include 1) maintaining a strengths-based orientation, 2) taking a life course perspective, 3) grounding care firmly in relationships, and 4) responding moment to moment. They propose that by emphasizing existential care in palliative nursing, we can create a more compassionate and human-centered health system.

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Section: Elements Of Existential Carementioning

confidence: 99%