Traits of hospice nurses compared with those who work in traditional settings
✍ Scribed by Madalon M. Amenta
- Book ID
- 101342391
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 493 KB
- Volume
- 40
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9762
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✦ Synopsis
Compared 36 hospice nurses with 35 nurses who were working in traditional settings. Data from a battery of five tests (Templer Death Anxiety Scale, Purpose in Life, Shneidman "You and Death" Questionnaire, Myers-Briggs, Cattell 16PF) revealed the hospice nurses to be significantly more assertive, imaginative, forthright, free-thinking and independent than their colleagues, who scored lower than the norms. The nurses in traditional settings exhibited a stronger preference than both hospice nurses and norms for the practical and no-nonsense in their approach to life. They were also more conventional and comfortable with structure. These data suggest a useful basis for hospice staff selection procedures as well as further study of the hospice as a setting evocative of autonomous professional nursing practice.