Intensive care nurses' experiences with end-of-life care

KT Kirchhoff, V Spuhler, L Walker… - American Journal of …, 2000 - search.proquest.com
BACKGROUND: With much attention being focused on how patients die and whether or not
they are provided appropriate care, the care of dying patients in intensive care units must be …

[PDF][PDF] END-OF-LIFE ISSUES IN INTENSIVE CARE UNITS: A NATIONAL RANDOM SURVEY OF NURSES”

KA Puntillo, P Benner, T Drought… - American Journal of …, 2001 - researchgate.net
|-QBIECTIVE To investigate the knowledge, beliefs, and ethical concerns of nurses caring for
patients dying in intensive care units.• MEHop5 A survey was mailed to 3000 members of …

Providing a “good death”: critical care nurses' suggestions for improving end-of-life care

RL Beckstrand, LC Callister, KT Kirchhoff - American journal of critical care, 2006 - AACN
• Background Providing appropriate end-of-life care has become a primary concern of
nurses and the public. The highly technological critical care environment may not facilitate …

Obstacles and helpful behaviors in providing end-of-life care to dying patients in intensive care units

MEL Iglesias, C Pascual… - Dimensions of Critical …, 2013 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND The history of death occupies a privileged place in history. 1 Attitudes
toward death have changed through history, and with the industrialization of society, death …

Providing end-of-life care to patients: critical care nurses' perceived obstacles and supportive behaviors

RL Beckstrand, KT Kirchhoff - American Journal of Critical Care, 2005 - AACN
• Background Critical care nurses care for dying patients daily. The process of dying in an
intensive care unit is complicated, and research on specific obstacles that impede delivery of …

The trajectory of experience of critical care nurses in providing end‐of‐life care: A qualitative descriptive study

KK Ong, KC Ting, YL Chow - Journal of clinical nursing, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Practice Recommendations for End-of-Life Care in the Intensive Care Uni

HI Jensen, K Halvorsen, H Jerpseth, I Fridh, R Lind - 2020 - munin.uit.no
Topic-A substantial number of patients die in the intensive care unit, so high-quality end-of-
life care is an important part of intensive care unit work. However, end-of-life care varies …

ICU nurses' experiences in providing terminal care

L Espinosa, A Young, L Symes, B Haile… - Critical care nursing …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
At least 1 in 5 Americans die while using intensive care service—a number that is expected
to increase as society ages. Many of these deaths involve withholding or withdrawing life …

End-of-life care in intensive care unit: Family experiences

LC Kisorio, GC Langley - Intensive and critical care nursing, 2016 - Elsevier
Purpose To elicit family members' experiences of end-of-life care in adult intensive care
units. Design and methods A descriptive, exploratory, qualitative design was utilised. A …

End-of-life care in the intensive care unit: can we do better?

MM Levy - Critical Care Medicine, 2001 - journals.lww.com
Everywhere we turn these days, it seems that we are confronted with a new study that
reports the dissatisfaction expressed by families with the quality of care received by their …