• Medsurg Nurs · Dec 1998

    The surrogate's experience during treatment decision-making.

    • B R Jeffers.
    • Mennonite College of Nursing, Bloomington, IL, USA.
    • Medsurg Nurs. 1998 Dec 1;7(6):357-63.

    PurposeTo explore the experiences, thoughts, and feelings of surrogates making decisions for older adults. To identify nursing practices perceived as helpful to surrogates.SampleEleven surrogate decision-makers.MethodQualitative. Semi-structured interviews/descriptive data used to enrich a larger study.FindingsFour main themes were identified that described the surrogates' experiences: Contextualizing the decision Actualizing agency Reviewing and resolving TranscendingClinical ImplicationsThree paradigm cases describe caregiving, protecting, and trusting response patterns of surrogates. Surrogates found decision-making an evolving and difficult process. Nurses can be more helpful to surrogates by giving them more opportunities to ask questions, solicit information, express emotions and obtain comfort and support.

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