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- Title
Critical Care Nurses in Community Hospitals: Moral Experiences with EndofLife Care.
- Authors
Wong, Sandra; Vanderspank-Wright, Brandi; Wright, David Kenneth
- Abstract
Purpose/goals: The presentation will highlight study findings of community hospital intensive care nurses' moral experiences with providing end-of-life care. Session description: Extant literature has identified that intensive care nurses perceive their role in end-of-life care to include the provision of comfort and dignity to dying patients (Fridh, Forsberg, & Bergbom, 2009). Studies have found that while intensive care nurses provide end-of-life care, their experiences are described to be challenging, gratifying and ethical (Calvin, Kite-Powell, & Hickey, 2007). Yet the extent to which these experiences have been analyzed from an explicitly moral perspective is limited. The nursing role and experience of providing end-of-life care in the intensive care unit is largely informed by studies conducted in urban hospitals. However, many community hospitals also have intensive care units, within which death and dying is a part of the clinical reality (Sarti, Fothergill- Bourbonnais, Landriault, Sutherland, & Cardinal, 2015). The purpose of the study was to explore nurses' moral experiences with end-of-life care in a community intensive care unit. Using Thorne’s Interpretive Description methodology, interviews were conducted with nurses who had the experience of providing end-of-life care in the community intensive care context. Findings of the study will be discussed in terms of nurses' descriptions of end-of-life care, nurses' values and commitments, and the influence of the community intensive care setting on nurses' provision of end-of-life care. Learning outcomes: 1. Describe the community intensive care context and its current empirical gaps in end-of-life care. 2. Identify interpretive-description as the methodology used in the study. 3. Critically reflect on the moral perspective of nurses' experience discussed in the study.
- Subjects
ETHICS; HOSPITALS; INTENSIVE care nursing; INTERVIEWING; RESEARCH methodology; NURSES' attitudes; TERMINAL care
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Critical Care Nursing, 2017, Vol 28, Issue 2, p51
- ISSN
2368-8653
- Publication type
Article