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{"target":"https://pubannotation.org/docs/sourcedb/PMC/sourceid/6949926","sourcedb":"PMC","sourceid":"6949926","source_url":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/6949926","text":"4.4. Perceptions of TB Patients\nNurses provide nursing care to the patients during the period of their hospitalization. The way nurses perceive patients matters; the nurses play a major role in the patients’ recovery. The following sub-themes will be discussed under nurses’ perceptions of their work; feelings and nurses’ emotions towards patients.\n\nFeelings and Emotions of Nurses Towards Patients\nNurses who care for dying patients are under pressure emotionally because of their beliefs and values about death as well as the emotions and reactions of the patients and their families. Despite TB being a curable disease, in almost all new cases, professionals such as psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists, and TB analysts have repeatedly indicated that talking about the disease still causes discomfort and unease in the population, especially within the poorer communities [26]. TB is surrounded by intense grief, with implications to different spheres of life, including social relationships. This is due to long-standing negative representations about this disease, which result in stigma and discrimination. Healthcare professionals believe besides TB’s ability to impact patients’ lives and causes death, it also has strong emotional impact on the life of a patient since it evokes disability, impotence, and self-discrimination. \nNurse (N6) reiterated that: “Most of our patients are very ill and their conditions are not good at all, you look at the person and see that chances are he/she might die, even though the hospital doesn’t have enough resources for us to do our job, but (emotional) we can’t just sit here and look we need to help those patients they become our responsibilities, we rather endanger our lives in order to save lives. I remember we have several cases where two patients from one family will be admitted and their beds will be next to each other, it always happens that one will die and the other one will remain, it will be so touching some even ask if he/she will be fine, to avoid frustrating the patient we always request that he/she be transferred to another hospital.”\nNurse (N3) indicated that: “Every time when I get to the wards I look at those kids some of them are very young and I just wish they would recover, they become so close to us like they are our own children or family members, we always encourage them to take medication and injections even when it is painful we help talk to them. Most of patients have side effects and they will vomit after taking medication and we always have to go all out and look for the food because they will be hungry.”\nAccording to the findings of this study, nurses experience stress, frustration, and pain due to the conditions of TB patients and they perceive their job as one of the hardest since it deals with emotions. Nurses always go to an extent of risking their lives in order to save lives. When they fail, they always feel bad and become emotionally frustrated. This study shows that, there is a high death rate in the TB wards of Tshilidzini Hospital, and when a patient dies, nurses feel sad and hurt. The findings of this study agree with those of the study by Khalid et al. [27], which showed that participants also experienced a variety of emotions when nursing patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, and not knowing what they were facing.\n","divisions":[{"label":"Title","span":{"begin":0,"end":31}},{"label":"Section","span":{"begin":351,"end":3358}},{"label":"Title","span":{"begin":351,"end":399}}],"tracks":[{"project":"2_test","denotations":[{"id":"31817829-23782670-49649097","span":{"begin":886,"end":888},"obj":"23782670"},{"id":"31817829-26847480-49649098","span":{"begin":3183,"end":3185},"obj":"26847480"},{"id":"T57083","span":{"begin":886,"end":888},"obj":"23782670"},{"id":"T71457","span":{"begin":3183,"end":3185},"obj":"26847480"}],"attributes":[{"subj":"31817829-23782670-49649097","pred":"source","obj":"2_test"},{"subj":"31817829-26847480-49649098","pred":"source","obj":"2_test"},{"subj":"T57083","pred":"source","obj":"2_test"},{"subj":"T71457","pred":"source","obj":"2_test"}]}],"config":{"attribute types":[{"pred":"source","value type":"selection","values":[{"id":"2_test","color":"#93c7ec","default":true}]}]}}