scholarly journals Nurses’ perceptions of caring for dying patients in an open critical care unit: a descriptive exploratory study

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda McCallum ◽  
Ruth McConigley
2000 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
KT Kirchhoff ◽  
RL Beckstrand

BACKGROUND: Little is known about nurses' perceptions of obstacles or helpful behaviors ("helps") in providing end-of-life care in the intensive care setting. OBJECTIVE: To determine the importance of various obstacles and helps in providing end-of-life care as perceived by critical care nurses. METHODS: A questionnaire was mailed to 300 members of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. Nurses were asked to rate obstacles and helps in giving end-of-life care, and additional obstacles and/or helps, and answer demographic questions. RESULTS: Six of the top 10 obstacles were related to issues with patients' families that make care at the end of life more difficult, such as the family's not fully understanding the meaning of life support, not accepting the patient's poor prognosis, requesting more technical treatment than the patient wished, and being angry. Added obstacles related mostly to problems with physicians' behavior. Most helps were ways to make dying easier for patients and patients' families, such as agreement among physicians about care, dying with dignity, and families' acceptance of the prognosis. Added helps included allowing music, pets, and so forth into the patient's room. CONCLUSIONS: Nurses have difficulties with patients' families and physicians concerning end-of-life issues, especially when the behaviors remove the nurses from caring for a patient or cause the patient pain or prolong suffering. Nurses do not acknowledge having difficulty providing care to dying patients aside from conflicts that arise because of patients' families and physicians.


1970 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Meilita Enggune ◽  
Kusman Ibrahim ◽  
Hana Rizmadewi Agustina

Tingginya angka kematian yang terjadi di unit perawatan intensif, menuntut peningkatan pelayanan perawatan paliatif termasuk perawatan pasien menjelang ajal, yang melibatkan perawat perawatan kritis. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk memperoleh gambaran persepsi perawat terhadap perawatan pasien menjelang ajal di ruang Neurosurgical Critical Care Unit(NCCU). Delapan perawat pelaksana di ruang NCCU RSHS Bandung dilibatkan dalam penelitian deskriptif kualitatif ini dengan rentang usia antara 27– 43 tahun, dan bekerja selama 3–20 tahun. Teknik sampling yang digunakan adalah purposive samplingdan jumlah informan dibatasi setelah data jenuh. Pengumpulan data dengan melakukan wawancara semi terstruktur, dan analisis yang digunakan adalah content analysis. Hasil penelitian didapatkan 4 tema dan 15 subtema yaitu: (1) Pemahaman perawat tentang perawatan pasien menjelang ajal yaitu: membantu pasien meninggal dengan tenang, menghadirkan keluarga untuk memberikan dukungan, dan lebih berfokus pada bimbingan spiritual; (2) Cara menghadapi kematian yang sering terjadi yaitu: adaptasi perawat terhadap kondisi pasien menjelang ajal, kesulitan menentukan fase menjelang ajal pasien kritis, dilema dalam pengambilan keputusan, dan empati; (3) Peran perawat dalam mempersiapkan pasien menjelang ajal yaitu: pembimbing spiritual pasien, komunikator, fasilitator, dan pemberi dukungan emosional keluarga; (4) Hal-hal yang perlu diperbaiki dalam perawatan menjelang ajal yaitu: diperlukan pelatihan perawatan paliatif pada pasien kritis, diperlukan ruangan khusus pasien menjelang ajal, diperlukan pembimbing rohani khusus, dan diperlukan standar operasional prosedur (SOP) perawatan pasien menjelang ajal. Perawat perlu memberikan perawatan yang membantu pasien meninggal dengan tenang, memberikan dukungan untuk keluarga, dan lebih difokuskan untuk memenuhi kebutuhan spiritual pasien.Kata kunci: Intensive Care Unit, perawatan akhir hidup, persepsi perawat AbstractThe high number of death that occurred in the Intensive Care Unit, strive to improve palliative care services including the provision of care of dying patients by critical care nurses. The purpose of this study was to obtain a perception of nurses toward the care of dying patients in the Neurosurgical Critical Care Unit ( NCCU ). Eight nurses who work at NCCU were involved in this study, age between 27- 43 and have been working from 3 to 20 years. The sampling technique used the purposive sampling method and a limited number of informants after data saturated. Data collection was done by conducting semi- structured interviews, content analysis was used to analyse the data. There are four themes with 15 sub-themes include: 1) Nurse understanding about caring for dying patients: help the patients to die peacefully, presenting the family to provide supports, and more focused on spiritual guidance. 2) Way of handling the frequent of death occurance: adaptation of nurses to dying condition, difficulty determining the critical phase of the dying patient, dilemmas in decision-making, and empathy. 3) The role of nurses in preparing for the dying patient: the patient spiritual guides, communicators, facilitators, and providers of family emotional support. 4) The Things that need to be improved in end of life care: the palliative care training is required in critically ill patients as well as separate unit for dying patients, exclusive spiritual guide, and standard operating procedures (SOP) of care for the dying patients. It can be concluded that nurses need to provide treatment that helping patients to die peacefully, and providing support for the family, which is focused on meeting the spiritual needs of patients.Key words:Intensive Care Unit, end of life care, nurses perception


POCUS Journal ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-14
Author(s):  
Hadiel Kaiyasah, MD, MRCS (Glasgow), ABHS-GS ◽  
Maryam Al Ali, MBBS

Soft tissue ultrasound (ST-USS) has been shown to be of utmost importance in assessing patients with soft tissue infections in the emergency department or critical care unit. It aids in guiding the management of soft tissue infection based on the sonographic findings.


2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirijam Hall ◽  
David Endress ◽  
Susanne Hölbfer ◽  
Barbara Maier

AbstractObjectivesTo report clinical data on maternal outcome, mode of delivery and immediate neonatal outcome in women infected with COVID-19.MethodsRetrospective data collection.ResultsA total of 8.6% of the total population of hospitalised SARS-CoV-2 positive pregnant women were admitted to a critical care unit. The premature birth rate for births before 34+0 weeks of gestation among pregnant women who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 was 7.1%. One newborn (3.6%) tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 two days after birth and showed symptoms.ConclusionsPregnant women with COVID-19 seem to be at higher risk of invasive ventilation, admission to a critical care unit and preterm birth, and should therefore be considered a high-risk-population.


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