Communicating Spirituality, Dying and a “Good Death” at the End-of-Life: The Role of Hospice Interdisciplinary Team Members

Communicating Spirituality, Dying and a “Good Death” at the End-of-Life: The Role of Hospice Interdisciplinary Team Members

Hospices use interdisciplinary teams to aid patients and families as they cope with the imminence of death while helping them achieve a death free of physical and spiritual pain, also known as a good death. This study investigated the communication between hospice team members and their patients reg...

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Main Author: Tullis Owen, Jillian A
Format: Others
Published: Scholar Commons 2009
Subjects:
Health
Ethnography
Narrative
Ethics
Mortality
American Studies
Arts and Humanities
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spelling ndltd-USF-oai-scholarcommons.usf.edu-etd-10552019-10-04T05:13:07Z Communicating Spirituality, Dying and a “Good Death” at the End-of-Life: The Role of Hospice Interdisciplinary Team Members Tullis Owen, Jillian A Hospices use interdisciplinary teams to aid patients and families as they cope with the imminence of death while helping them achieve a death free of physical and spiritual pain, also known as a good death. This study investigated the communication between hospice team members and their patients regarding spirituality, dying, death and a good death. Through 300 hours of participant observation and interviews with hospice staff at one large not-for-profit hospice in the Southeastern United States this project shows that team members understand patient's spirituality through a religious frame potentially compromising spiritual care. Talk between patients and their care team rarely focuses on what constitutes a good death and team members eventually come to narrate all hospice deaths as good. 2009-05-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/56 https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1055&context=etd default Graduate Theses and Dissertations Scholar Commons Health Ethnography Narrative Ethics Mortality American Studies Arts and Humanities
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topic Health
Ethnography
Narrative
Ethics
Mortality
American Studies
Arts and Humanities
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Ethnography
Narrative
Ethics
Mortality
American Studies
Arts and Humanities
Tullis Owen, Jillian A
Communicating Spirituality, Dying and a “Good Death” at the End-of-Life: The Role of Hospice Interdisciplinary Team Members
description Hospices use interdisciplinary teams to aid patients and families as they cope with the imminence of death while helping them achieve a death free of physical and spiritual pain, also known as a good death. This study investigated the communication between hospice team members and their patients regarding spirituality, dying, death and a good death. Through 300 hours of participant observation and interviews with hospice staff at one large not-for-profit hospice in the Southeastern United States this project shows that team members understand patient's spirituality through a religious frame potentially compromising spiritual care. Talk between patients and their care team rarely focuses on what constitutes a good death and team members eventually come to narrate all hospice deaths as good.
author Tullis Owen, Jillian A
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title Communicating Spirituality, Dying and a “Good Death” at the End-of-Life: The Role of Hospice Interdisciplinary Team Members
title_short Communicating Spirituality, Dying and a “Good Death” at the End-of-Life: The Role of Hospice Interdisciplinary Team Members
title_full Communicating Spirituality, Dying and a “Good Death” at the End-of-Life: The Role of Hospice Interdisciplinary Team Members
title_fullStr Communicating Spirituality, Dying and a “Good Death” at the End-of-Life: The Role of Hospice Interdisciplinary Team Members
title_full_unstemmed Communicating Spirituality, Dying and a “Good Death” at the End-of-Life: The Role of Hospice Interdisciplinary Team Members
title_sort communicating spirituality, dying and a “good death” at the end-of-life: the role of hospice interdisciplinary team members
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