Dying Patient and Family Contributions to Nurse Distress in the ICU.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

Caring for patients at the end of life is emotionally taxing and may contribute to burnout. Nevertheless, little is known about the factors associated with emotional distress in intensive care unit (ICU) nurses.

Objectives

To identify patient and family factors associated with nurses' emotional distress in caring for dying patients in the ICU.

Methods

One hundred nurses who cared for 200 deceased ICU patients at two large academic medical centers in the Northeast United States were interviewed about patients' psychological and physical symptoms, their reactions to those patient experiences (e.g., emotional distress), and perceived factors contributing to their emotional distress. Logistic regression analyses modeled nurses' emotional distress as a function o

SUBMITTER: Lief L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6322021 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature