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      The Caring Mission—Healthcare Personnel’s Inner Driving Force in End-of-Life Care Translated title: Vårdandets mission- vårdares inre drivkraft vid vård i livets slutskede

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          Constantly facing human suffering and impending death can generate anxiety and insecurity in nursing personnel in end-of-life care. The aim of the study is to reveal nursing personnel’s inner driving force in end-of-life care. A phenomenological hermeneutical method was used to search for meaning in the narrative data collected in this study. The structural analysis resulted in four themes: The appeal in the patient’s vulnerability, The appeal in the patient’s joy, Facing one’s own existence in vulnerability , and Being at home with colleagues. Both vulnerability and joy motivated nursing personnel in caring. The care was often emotionally engaging and oscillated between grief and joy, which required a great deal from the nursing personnel both as professionals and fellow human beings. At the same time the emotionally engaging constituted an inner driving force, which gave them courage to do the best for the patients at the end of life.

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          Att ständigt möta mänskligt lidande och förestående död kan skapa ångest och osäkerhet hos vårdare som vårdar patienter i livets slutskede. Syftet med studien är att synliggöra vårdares inre drivkraft vid vård i livets slutskede. En fenomenologisk hermeneutisk metod användes för att söka efter mening i vårdarnas berättelser. Strukturanalysen resulterade i fyra teman: Appellen i patientens sårbarhet, Appellen i patientens glädje, Att möta sin egen existens i sårbarhet , och Att vara hemma med kollegor . Både sårbarhet och glädje motiverade vårdarna i vårdandet. Vårdandet var ofta känslomässigt engagerande och vårdarna pendlade mellan sorg och glädje, vilket krävde mycket av dem både som yrkesmänniskor och medmänniskor. Samtidigt utgjorde det känslomässiga engagemanget en inre drivkraft, som gav dem mod att göra det bästa för patienterna i livets slutskede.

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                Journal
                Glob Qual Nurs Res
                Glob Qual Nurs Res
                GQN
                spgqn
                Global Qualitative Nursing Research
                SAGE Publications (Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA )
                2333-3936
                31 October 2022
                Jan-Dec 2022
                : 9
                : 23333936221128241
                Affiliations
                [1 ]University West, Trollhättan, Sweden
                [2 ]Specialized University, Bergen, Norway
                Author notes
                [*]Margareta Karlsson, Department of Health Sciences, University West, Gustava Melins gata 2, Trollhättan, 461 86, Sweden. Email: margareta.karlsson@ 123456hv.se
                Author information
                https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1981-455X
                https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8093-4054
                Article
                10.1177_23333936221128241
                10.1177/23333936221128241
                9630898
                bb7f4e0d-b672-486f-b694-811facac53ed
                © The Author(s) 2022

                This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages ( https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).

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                : 21 March 2022
                : 26 August 2022
                : 7 September 2022
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