Anestesisjuksköterskors, sjuksköterskors och undersköterskors upplevelse av att vårda patienter med inoperabel bukcancer direkt postoperativt innan besked om prognos- en fokusgrupp studie

Sammanfattning: Background: The registered nurses specific area of competence is nursing care, which must be performed in a trusting relationship with the patient. Within perioperative care nurse anaesthetists, registered nurses and assistant nurses work with varied specific tasks to provide patient good care, before, during and after surgery. Sometimes they care for patients with advanced abdominal cancer, whose surgery is crucial for the prognosis of their illness. This means they care for patients directly before and directly after they receive their updated prognosis. Sometimes this surgery for advanced abdominal cancer is considered inoperable shortly after start of surgery, abdominal cancer is often detected at a late stage due to diffuse symptoms. The survival rate after surgery is often short, and palliative care is therefore often initiated. Aim: To describe nurse anaesthetists, registered nurses and assistant nurses experiences when caring for patients directly after surgery whose abdominal cancer was deemed inoperable. Method: Explorative qualitative studied design. Data collection, focus group discussions with nurse anaesthetists, registered nurses and assistant nurses. Analysed using qualitative content analysis. Results: The result is described with three overarching themes. Feeling of inadequacy whitch described the feeling of not wanting to lie, of identifying with patients of the same age, insufficient information and that body language can inadvertently transmit information. Creating strategies describes the difficulty in answering questions and the need for recovery. A feeling of increased security is about the opportunity to prepare and feeling that the conversation with the patient is facilitated. The three themes are based on eight underlying categories. Discussion: No previous research could be found, whitch may indicate that the research question of the study is unique. The use of focus groups as a method was experienced positively, but the prevailing pandemic has affected the possibility of including participants. The experiences of nurse anaesthetists, registered nurses, assistant nurses was shown to be similar, probably unintentially provide to the fact that all participants worked with perioperative care. Conclusion: Nurse anaesthetists, registered nurses and assistant nurses considered it challenging to care for patients with inoperable abdominal cancer. The main challenge was to care for the patients of same age and to respond to patients questions without inadvertently conveying information with body language.