Practice Recommendations for End-of-Life Care in the Intensive Care Unit
Journal article, Peer reviewed
Published version
![Thumbnail](/oda-xmlui/bitstream/handle/10642/9982/Jensen%2bet%2ba.%2b2020.pdf.jpg?sequence=3&isAllowed=y)
View/ Open
Date
2020-06-01Metadata
Show full item recordCollections
Original version
Jensen HI, Halvorsen KH, Jerpseth H, Fridh I, Lind R. Practice Recommendations for End-of-Life Care in the Intensive Care Uni. American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. 2020;40(3):14-22 https://doi.org/10.4037/ccn2020834Abstract
Topic: A substantial number of patients die in the intensive care unit, so high-quality end-of-life care is an important part of intensive care unit work. However, end-of-life care varies because of lack of knowledge of best practices. Clinical Relevance: Research shows that high-quality end-of-life care is possible in an intensive care unit. This article encourages nurses to be imaginative and take an individual approach to provide the best possible end-of-life care for patients and their family members. Purpose of Paper: To provide recommendations for high-quality end-of-life care for patients and family members. Content Covered: This article touches on the following domains: end-of-life decision-making, place to die, patient comfort, family presence in the intensive care unit, visiting children, family needs, preparing the family, staff presence, when the patient dies, after-death care of the family, and caring for staff.