Undergraduate nursing students' experiences of palliative care in the intensive care unit.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The terminal ill patients in the Intensive Care Unit had physical, mental, social, and spiritual suffering. Nursing students must be aware of own feelings to be able to deliver humanistic care and enable patients to live the rest of lives with dignity. The aim of the study was to investigate experiences of providing palliative care in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

Method

This study is a qualitative case study research. In-depth interviews were conducted with the key informants. The key informants were nine Thai third-year nursing students were purposively selected.

Results

The experiences of providing palliative care involved two Themes: (1) self-perception while providing care for terminal ill patients and (2) providing care for terminal ill patients with

SUBMITTER: Sukcharoen P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10388492 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature