A RECONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE CONCEPT OF GRIEF FOR NURSING: A PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS (BEREAVEMENT, CARING).
Contributors: New York University.
Published: 1995
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Psychology, Industrial.
Description: Grieving is a human experience. The intent of this qualitative study was to suggest that grief, as conceptualized in nursing literature, is not adequate to foster understanding of the human experience of grief or to support nursing's humanistic purpose of caring for people who are grieving. Philosophical inquiry and analysis was used to explore the literature, describe general approaches to the concept of grief, argue their inadequacies, develop a reconceptualization of the concept, and suggest guidelines for nursing care based on the reformulation of the concept, and suggest guidelines for nursing care based on the reformulation of the concept of grief. This study argues that a reformulation of the concept of grief as a continuous life process is needed for guiding nursing care.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-11, Section: B, page: 6031.

Thesis (PH.D.)--NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, 1995.

School code: 0146.