Objective: Caring for terminally ill patients is complex, stressful, and at times distressing for
nurses. Acute care hospitals continue to be the predominant place of death for terminally ill …

Aims and objectives To understand the perceptions of critical care nurses towards providing
end‐of‐life care. Background There has been an increasing interest in end‐of‐life care in …

Background: The number of deaths occurring in hospitals is rising, and many occur in
settings other than specialist palliative care, oncology or critical care. Nurses working …

Approximately 90% of the UK population spend some time in hospital in their final year of
life, and more than half of the population die in hospital. This review aims to explore the …

Background: End-of-life care (EOLC) in the intensive care unit (ICU) has received little
attention in the literature in comparison to the considerable amount of existing literature …

Background: A challenge for intensive care nurses is providing the best possible care to
patients in an end‐of‐life stage. The fact that some patients will die despite the efforts of the …

Purpose The aim of this study is to illuminate how nurses working in an intensive care unit
perceive their professional duties regarding end-of-life care based on their end-of-life care …

The role of intensive care unit (ICU) nurses during end-of-life care (EOLC) is not always
clear. Therefore, insight into their experiences and perspectives is warranted. The aim of this …

Purpose To explore intensive care nurses' experiences of end-of-life care in adult intensive
care units. Design and methods An exploratory, descriptive qualitative approach was …

Background: Patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) may face terminal illness
situations, which may lead to death. In this case, the role of critical care nurses shifts from life …