Bemötande av anhöriga vid traumatiska dödsfall - En litteraturstudie om omhändertagandet av de anhöriga och deras behov

Sammanfattning: Traumatic deaths hit relatives hard and a fast and professional encounter can make crisis management easier. The purpose of this literature review is to find partly how relatives after traumatic deaths are taken care of and how nursing staff fulfil the relatives' needs and also how nurses prepare themselves before this encounter with the realatives. The method in this study consists of a literature review. This was done through critical examining a number of articles within this area. The result shows how a nurse could encounter relatives after traumatic deaths. This is shown in the themes we have chosen. These are relative room, staff training, written information, type of language, circumstance round dead and also protocol and action plan. In this work, we discuss as writers how a nurse should and could improve the attention of relatives and it also gives a basis in how relatives in grief reacts and how the ar-rangement process proceeds. Our hope is that this study gives a good understanding in the work of giving a good care of the relatives.