Evaluation of Nursing Home Care Staff’s Views on Dignified Death: A Qualitative Study

This study examined the views of nursing home care staff on dignified death. The study was conducted using an exploratory qualitative research design and included 22 care staff working in a nursing home. The data were collected face-to-face between January and February 2024 through individual. The researchers manually analyzed the data using thematic analysis. Four main themes and ten sub-themes emerged. The themes were requirements (body, comfort, and quality of life), culture (rituals, those left behind, and farewell), environment (space and cemetery of the nameless), and barriers of a dignified death (lack of knowledge and being a burden). Nursing home care staff need information about dignified death. Training care staff about the death process in cooperation with health professionals, including the nurses with whom they work, and raising awareness about dignified death can help individuals whose lives end in nursing homes experience a dignified death.