RT journal article
T1 When Nurses Become Patients. Validation of the Content of the Diagnostic Label Professional Traumatic Grief
A1 Gilart Cantizano, Ester
A1 Lepiani Díaz, Isabel
A1 Cantizano Nuñez, Maria José
A1 Cabrera Román, Inmaculada
A1 Bocchino, Anna
A2 Enfermería y Fisioterapia
K1 Nursing
K1 Traumatic grief
K1 Covid-19
AB (1) Background: The Covid-19 pandemic has put our healthcare systems to the test, exposing their vulnerability and demanding a high degree of commitment and dedication from healthcare teams to confront and contain the disease. In this sense, nursing professionals have played a prominent role in the treatment of complex cases that have required hospitalisation and have manifested pre-existing health complications or mortality. This unprecedented situation made it difficult to regulate the emotional impact and manage grief, often turning it into a traumatic grief whose psychological and emotional manifestations are increasingly evident but very little researched in the current context. (2) Purpose: Validation of the definition, defining characteristics and related factors for the proposal of the nursing diagnosis of professional traumatic grief. (3) Method: Based on Fehring's content validation model, the label name, defining characteristics and other related factors were agreed upon by Spanish experts. (4) Results: The content validity index was 0.9068. A total of 21 defining characteristics were validated by the experts, as all of them scored above 0.6. With respect to the related factors of the proposed 10, all were validated. (5) Conclusion: The present study supports the proposal to develop a nursing diagnosis for professional traumatic grief. The use of standardised language is only the first step in establishing professional traumatic grief as a diagnostic category.
PB Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
SN 2227-9032
YR 2021
FD 2021-08-23
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/38147
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/38147
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 09-nov-2026