Sociocultural presupositions of meeting with death of nurses in palliative oncological nursing care

Abstract

Medical personnel often and closely meet with death, they need professional training and sociocultural presuppositions that should get intensified during their practice. Physical nearness and contact with a dying person do not necessarily have to mean a real closeness and understanding. The social aspect is absent above all in searching for the cultural ritual of our time, which is also mirrored in self-reflection of nurses at their contact with a death. There is missing education of the general public and although experts have been trying hard, this matter is still a taboo.