Purpose The integration of palliative care into intensive care units (ICUs) is advocated to
mitigate physical and psychological burdens for patients and their families, and to improve …

Background End-of-life decision making in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), can be emotionally
challenging and multifaceted. Doctors and nurses are sometimes placed in a precarious …

Background Critical care nurses providing care for adults at the end of life may encounter
moral distress when they cannot do what they believe is ethically correct. Psychological …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Advance care discussions (ACD) occur infrequently or
are initiated late in the course of illness. Although data exist regarding barriers to ACD …

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 …

Suffering repeated experiences of moral distress in intensive care units due to applications
of futility reflects on nurses' patient care negatively, increases their burnout, and reduces …

Background While a palliative approach is generally perceived to be an integral part of the
intensive care unit (ICU), the provision of palliative care in this setting is challenging. This …

Aim: To investigate critical care nurses' perceptions of barriers and supportive behaviors in
providing end of life (EOL) care to dying patients and their families. Methods: The study …

The US hospital embodies society's hope for itself—a technological bastion standing
between us and death. What does the gold standard of rescue, as ideology and industry …

Aims and objectives To investigate nurses' roles and responsibilities in providing
bereavement care during the care of dying patients within acute care hospitals. Background …