Access to Palliative Care in Intensive Care Units and the Role of Nursing in its Promotion
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- February 26, 2019
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McGee, Jonathan M.
- Affiliation: School of Nursing
- Abstract
- Barriers to palliative care in the ICU are well known and documented in the literature, and there is ample research on how to increase referral rates to palliative and hospice care in the ICU in general. However, none of these interventions will change patient care if there is not a desire to employ them that comes from an understanding of the importance and value of good end-of-life care. Necessary to developing this understanding is openness to talking about death not just as professionals, but also as individual persons. We must accept the ineluctability of death as a personal as well as a professional reality so that we might appreciate the value of end-of-life care. A reflection on patterns of end-of-life care in and around the ICU provides an opportunity to reflect on attitudes surrounding death so that nursing can, as a profession, be conscientious of the role it needs to play in advocating for quality end-of-life care in the ICU and change how it educates new nurses accordingly.
- Date of publication
- spring 2017
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- Funding: None
- Advisor
- Leonard, Christina
- Degree
- Bachelor of Science
- Academic concentration
- Nursing
- Honors level
- Honors
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Graduation year
- 2017
- Language
- English
- Date uploaded
- April 6, 2017
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