Difficulties Perceived by ICU Nurses Providing End-of-Life Care: A Qualitative Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With advances in medicine and technology, intensive care units (ICUs) have the capacity to treat patients who would have previously not been expected to survive and would therefore not have been managed in ICUs. When an individual is not expected to survive, doctors and nurses face the modern ethical dilemma of death associated with withdrawal of life-supporting strategies. The aim of this study was to identify difficulties perceived by ICU nurses providing end-of-life care (EOLC) in Poland.

Methods

The qualitative study was designed to investigate the difficulties, and the related barriers, to EOLC provided in ICUs in Poland. We conducted individual telephone interviews with ICU nurses from across Poland.

Results

The main issues raised during the interview

SUBMITTER: Ozga D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7139169 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature