Document 0708
 DOCN  M9550708
 TI    [Admission to a ward for terminal care as a status passage]
 DT    9505
 AU    Spirig R
 SO    Pflege. 1994 Dec;7(4):272-9. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/95151952
 AB    In the last few years clinics exclusively for patients suffering from
       AIDS have been developed in Switzerland, specialising in terminal care.
       The institution in which the research here reported was carried out,
       admitted drug-dependent patients with AIDS. Admission to the unit,
       henceforth referred to as unit for the dying, is a very special event,
       which triggers off a variety of behavioural manifestations. The research
       shows that it is a case of 'status passage' as described by Glaser and
       Strauss (1971), which is experienced differently by each individual. In
       spite of individual differences, similar conditions, similar factors,
       which influence patients, similar coping mechanisms were observed. To
       end the paper, concrete suggestions are offered for the care of drug
       dependent patients suffering from AIDS, suggestions at the level of
       individual nurses, of the nursing profession and of the structure of the
       organisation.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/ETIOLOGY/NURSING  English Abstract
       *Health Status  Human  *Patient Transfer  Substance
       Dependence/COMPLICATIONS  *Terminal Care  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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