Table 1 Characteristics of the study participants
From: Home care nurses facilitating planned home deaths. A focused ethnography
Characteristics | Study participants n = 20 |
|---|---|
Sex, n | |
Women | 17 |
Men | 3 |
Age, mean (range) | 43 (23–64) |
Experience as a nurse, years (range) | 12 (1–24) |
Specialization among nurses, n | |
Palliative care | 2 |
Adult psychiatry and substance abuse | 1 |
Dementia and geriatric psychiatry | 2 |
Cancer care | 8 |
None | 7 |
Experienced cases of facilitating planned home deaths, mean (range) | 5.9 (2–10) |