The Emotional Labor of Personal Grief in Palliative Care: Balancing Caring and Professional Identities.

Related Articles The Emotional Labor of Personal Grief in Palliative Care: Balancing Caring and Professional Identities. Qual Health Res. 2017 Dec;27(14):2211-2221 Authors: Funk LM, Peters S, Roger KS Abstract The paid provision of care for dying persons and their families blends commodified emotion work and attachments to two often-conflicting role identities: the caring person and the professional. We explore how health care employees interpret personal grief related to patient death, drawing on interviews with 12 health care aides and 13 nurses. Data were analyzed collaboratively using an interpretively embedded thematic coding approach and constant comparison. Participant accounts of preventing, postponing,…
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