• Mengying Yang, Peipei Yu, Hui Zhang, and Yingying Zheng.
• Nursing Department, The Central Hospital of Wuhan, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
• Medicine (Baltimore). 2024 Oct 25; 103 (43): e40034e40034.

ObjectivesTo systematically evaluate the qualitative study of nurses' real experience after patient suicide, and to provide theoretical basis for reducing the influence of patient suicide on nurses and reducing the incidence of patient suicide.DesignA systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies.MethodsThese databases including The Cochrane Library, CINAHL, PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, CMB, CNKI, Wanfang, and VIP were searched by computer to collect relate qualitative researches. The retrieval time was from database established to February 2024. Joanna Briggs Institute Qualitative Research Quality Evaluation Form was used to evaluate the literature quality and Meta-integration.ResultsA total of 12 studies were included and 47 results were obtained, which were summarized into 8 new categories and 3 integrated results were obtained. Theme 1: impact on nurses themselves; Theme 2: the nurse's thoughts and suggestions of patient suicide; Theme 3: coping strategy.ConclusionsNursing managers should fully pay attention to nurses' feelings and cognitive attitudes after patients' suicide events, strengthen psychological counseling for nurses, so as to reduce the impact of patients' suicide events on nurses.Copyright © 2024 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

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