Decision-Making Surrounding Infants at the Margin of Viability: Understanding Family-Provider Interaction
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- February 26, 2019
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Collins, Casey
- Affiliation: School of Nursing
- Abstract
- With advances in technology over the past few decades the characteristics of an infant considered to be at the margin of viability has changed markedly. Medical interventions are now able to help sustain the life of infants born at gestational ages as young as 23 weeks and at higher acuity levels than previously seen. The birth of infants at the margin of viability has raised serious ethical questions regarding survival, parenting, and suffering. These questions challenge the way in which we view the interactions between the family and the providers in making decisions surrounding the infant’s care. Each party, the family and the providers, share concern in promoting the best interest of the infant. However, with differences in expertise, experience, and guiding ethical frameworks the two parties have the potential to hold contrasting views on the care of the infant. Further research on the process of regoaling and the incorporation of the collaborative communication model in provider education may benefit future conversations and family-provider interactions in cases of birth at the margin of viability.
- Date of publication
- spring 2015
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- Advisor
- Black, Beth
- Degree
- Bachelor of Science
- Honors level
- Honors
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Extent
- 29
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