Palliativ vård : En litteraturöversikt av sjuksköterskors perspektiv

Sammanfattning: Background: It is part of nurses' professional role to meet patients and relatives in palliative care. Palliative care aims to relieve suffering before death, due to illness, injury or natural aging. Despite the importance of palliative care, patients and relatives describe in previous research that nurses saw them only as a disease and not as unique people. Patients and relatives value communication and support with a focus on existential needs, which means a great responsibility for nurses. Aim: To create an overview of palliative care from nurses' perspectives. Method: A literature review. A total of 12 caring science articles were included which were analyzed and summarized. Results: Nurses believed that communication is important to create trusting relationships with patients and relatives in palliative care. However, some nurses expressed that it is difficult and therefore avoided communicating. Many nurses state that they lack preparation and training for palliative care in basic education. Conclusion: Palliative care should be designed based on patients' individual needs, but in order for nurses to be able to fulfill individualized care, conditions such as time and resources are needed. Communication is also an important part of palliative care, where the conversation is important for both comfort and support. Keywords: Communication, Experience, Literature review, Nurses, Palliative care