Background

A miscarriage counts as a women´s disease which brings the women into contact with a gynecological ward or emergency room. There she usually meet nurses that takes care of her. Pre-vious studies show that the nurse treatment during and after a miscarriage plays a big part how well women can cope a miscarriage.

Aim

This study aims to describe women´s experience of nurse´s treatment during miscarriage before the 16th week of pregnancy.

Method

A qualitative literature review was performed, based on eight qualitative articles. The articles were found from two differ-ent databases, Cinahl and Pub Med. Four articles were found unsystematic. All articles were re-viewed critically by the author.

Results

The result show four main themes: "Absence of support", "Absence of respect", "Making invisible" and "Nurses understanding". The four main themes gen-erated eight sub themes: "Perfunctory treatment", "Lack of empathetic treatment", "Not being taken seriously", "Inaccessible treatment", "Not being seen", "Being left alone", "To show honesty" and "To show dedication".

Conclusion

In this study a big need of being treated with empathy and taken seriously was identified. The women experience the nurses treatment inadequate. The nurse´s treat-ment to women who experience miscarriage must be improved, to satisfy the women´s different di-mensions of needs.