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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.13624" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.13624</a>
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Intensive care bereavement practices across New Zealand and Australian intensive care units: a qualitative content analysis
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Journal of Clinical Nursing
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2017
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Bereavement; Critical Care Nursing; Practice Patterns Nurses'; Adult; Australia; bereavement; Child; Death; dying; end-of-life care; Family; Female; Humans; Intensive Care; Intensive Care Units; Internet; Male; New Zealand; nursing role; Patient-Centered Care; Surveys and Questionnaires
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Coombs M; Mitchell M; James S; Wetzig K
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BACKGROUND: End-of-life and bereavement care is an important consideration in intensive care. This study describes the type of bereavement care provided in intensive care units across Australia and New Zealand. DESIGN: Inductive qualitative content analysis was conducted on free-text responses to a web-based survey exploring unit-based bereavement practice distributed to nurse managers in 229 intensive care units in New Zealand and Australia. RESULTS: A total of 153 (67%) surveys were returned with 68 respondents making free-text responses. Respondents were mainly Australian (n = 54, 85.3%), from the public sector (n = 51, 75%) and holding Nurse Unit Managers/Charge Nurse roles (n = 39, 52.9%). From the 124 free-text responses, a total of 187 individual codes were identified focussing on bereavement care practices (n = 145, 77.5%), educational provision to support staff (n = 15, 8%) and organisational challenges (n = 27, 14.4%). Bereavement care practices described use of memory boxes, cultural specificity, annual memorial services and use of community support services. Educational provision identified local in-service programmes, and national bereavement courses for specialist bereavement nurse coordinators. Organisational challenges focussed on lack of funding, especially for provision of bereavement follow-up. CONCLUSIONS: This is the first Australasian-wide survey, and one of the few international studies, describing bereavement practices within intensive care, an important aspect of nursing practice. However, with funding for new bereavement services and education for staff lacking, there are continued challenges in developing bereavement care. Given knowledge about the impact of these areas of care on bereaved family members, this requires review. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE: Nurses remain committed to supporting bereaved families during and following death in intensive care. With limited resource to support bereavement care, intensive care nurses undertake a range of bereavement care practices at time of death, and after death through family bereavement follow-up.
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.13624" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">10.1111/jocn.13624</a>
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Article information provided for research and reference use only. PedPalASCNET does not hold any rights over the resource listed here. All rights are retained by the journal listed under publisher and/or the creator(s).
2017
Adult
Australia
Bereavement
Child
Coombs M
Critical Care Nursing
Death
Dying
End-of-life Care
Family
Female
Humans
Intensive Care
Intensive Care Units
Internet
James S
January 2018 List
Journal of Clinical Nursing
Male
Mitchell M
New Zealand
nursing role
Patient-centered Care
Practice Patterns Nurses'
Surveys And Questionnaires
Wetzig K
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The Provision Of Family-centred Intensive Care Bereavement Support In Australia And New Zealand: Results Of A Cross Sectional Explorative Descriptive Survey
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Aust Crit Care
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2016
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Bereavement; Critical Care; Death; Family; Grief; Hospice Care
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Mitchell M; Coombs M; Wetzig K
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BACKGROUND: Caring for the bereaved is an intrinsic part of intensive care practice with family bereavement support an important aspect of the nursing role at end of life. However, reporting on provision of intensive care family bereavement support at a national level has not been well reported since an Australian paper published ten years ago. OBJECTIVES: The objective was to investigate provision of family bereavement support in intensive care units (ICU) across New Zealand (NZ) and Australia. METHOD: A cross-sectional exploratory descriptive web-based survey was used. All ICUs [public/private, neonatal/pediatrics/adults] were included. The survey was distributed to one nursing leader from each identified ICU (n=229; 188 in Australia, 41 in NZ). Internal validity of the survey was established through piloting. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse the data. Ethical approval was received by the ethics committees of two universities. RESULTS: One-hundred and fifty-three (67%) responses were received from across New Zealand and Australia with 69.3% of respondents from the public sector. Whilst respondents reported common bereavement practices to include debriefing for staff after a traumatic death (87.9%), there was greater variation in sending a sympathy card to families (NZ 54.2%, Australia 20.8%). Fifty percent of responding New Zealand units had a bereavement follow-up service compared to 28.3% of Australian unit respondents. Of those with follow-up services, 92.3% of New Zealand units undertook follow-up calls to families compared to 76.5% of Australian units. Bereavement follow-up services were mainly managed by social workers in Australia and nursing staff in New Zealand. CONCLUSIONS: This is the first Australia and New Zealand-wide survey on ICU bereavement support services. Whilst key components of family bereavement support remain consistent over the past decade, there were fewer bereavement follow-up services in responding Australian ICUs in 2015. As a quality improvement initiative, support for this area of family care remains important with rigorous evaluation essential.
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10.1016/j.aucc.2016.07.005
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2016
Aust Crit Care
Bereavement
Coombs M
Critical Care
Death
Family
Grief
Hospice Care
June 2017 List
Mitchell M
Wetzig K