Care of patients undergoing withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments: an ICU nurse perspective.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Intensive care unit (ICU) nurses working in South Korea report experiencing uncertainty about how to care for patients undergoing withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments (WLT). A lack of consensus on care guidelines for patients with WLT contributes to uncertainty, ambiguity, and confusion on how to act appropriately within current law and social and ethical norms. To date, little has been discussed or described about how ICU nurses construct meaning about their roles in caring for dying patients in the context of wider social issues about end-of-life care and how this meaning interacts with the ICU system structure and national law. We aimed to better understand how ICU nurses view themselves professionally and how their perceived roles are enabled and/or limited by th

SUBMITTER: Chang SO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10910717 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature