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Nurses' knowledge of paediatric palliative care in a children's hospital

BACKGROUND: Effective training of health professionals is essential to end-of-life care. AIMS: To explore the level of knowledge on paediatric palliative care (PPC) of nurses in a children's monographic hospital. METHOD(S): Cross-sectional…

HELPING THE HELPERS - SUPPORT IN CHILD BEREAVEMENT FOR PAEDIATRIC HEALTH CARE STAFF

Objectives Around 70% of children with life-limiting conditions will die in hospital,1 meaning many paediatric staff will encounter death during their clinical duties. Observing and experiencing grief around a child's death can have a detrimental…

Family-Centered Culture Care: Touched by an Angel

An Asian Indian Hindu family chose no intervention and hospice care for their newborn with hypoplastic right heart syndrome as an ethical option, and the newborn expired after five days. Professional nursing integrates values-based practice and…

Evaluation Of Temporal Health System Factors Influencing Parallel Palliative Care Referral For Children With Complex Cardiorespiratory Diagnosis And Treatment

Objectives Palliative care (PC) affirms life with goal to improve quality of life for patients with life-threatening conditions.1 PC referrals are influenced by multiple patient and provider factors, including staff awareness of guidelines, plus…

Neonatal Palliative Care: Assessing the Nurses Educational Needs for Terminally Ill Patients

BACKGROUND: For terminally sick neonates and their families, it's crucial to provide holistic nursing care that incorporates both curative and palliative care as much as feasible. It is well known that the biggest obstacle to delivering palliative…

Limitation of Futile Therapy in the Opinion of Nursing Staff Employed in Polish Hospitals-Results of a Cross-Sectional Study

The debate on limiting futile therapy in the aspect of End of Life (EoL) care has been going on in Poland over the last decade. The growing demand for EoL care resulting from the aging of societies corresponds to the expectation of a satisfactory…

Tags: 2022, Adult, Attitude Of Health Personnel, Cesarean Section, Child, Cross-sectional Studies, Damps M, Gajda M, Human, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Kowalska M, Kucewicz-Czech E, March List 2023, Medical Futility, Nursing Staff, Poland, Quality Of Life, Surveys And Questionnaires

Implementing a Palliative Care Education Program in the NICU and Why It Is so Important: A Literature Review

Aim: To review the literature relevant to palliative care educational programs for nursing staff and families in the NICU. Background: Few hospitals have a palliative care educational program that is in place despite the increasing need for one.…

Tags: 2022, anxiety, Arbuckle AD, Educational program, End-of-life Care, Family, February List 2023, Infant, Neonatal, Neonatal Network, Neonatal Palliative Care, Newborn Humans Intensive Care Units, Nursing Staff, Palliative Care

Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders in the Neonatal ICU: Experiences and Beliefs Among Staff

OBJECTIVES: Studies in adult patients have shown that do-not-resuscitate orders are often associated with decreased medical intervention. In neonatology, this phenomenon has not been investigated, and how do-not-resuscitate orders potentially affect…

Neonatal palliative care: A single site clinical audit

Background: Best practice, palliative and end-of-life care (EOLC) enhances symptom management and quality-of-life for individuals who are palliative and dying, and their families. Although Gold Coast Health (GCH) has a dedicated, interdisciplinary…

Maintaining Integrity: How Nurses Navigate Boundaries in Pediatric Palliative Care

PURPOSE: To explore how nurses manage personal and professional boundaries in caring for seriously ill children and their families., DESIGN AND METHODS: Using a constructivist grounded theory approach, a convenience sample of 18 registered nurses…

The relationship between providing neonatal palliative care and nurses' moral distress: an integrative review

Moral distress has been identified in multiple clinical settings especially in critical care areas. The neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) has frequent situations in which moral distress may occur including providing palliative care. The purpose of…

Tags: 2014, Advances in Neonatal Care, Backlog, Burnout, Cavinder C, Journal Article, Moral Distress, neonatal intensive care, Nursing Staff, Review

The attitudes of neonatal professionals towards end-of-life decision-making for dying infants in Taiwan

The purposes of research were to describe the neonatal clinicians' personal views and attitudes on neonatal ethical decision-making, to identify factors that might affect these attitudes and to compare the attitudes between neonatal physicians and…

End-of-life decision making in Taiwan: healthcare practice is rooted in local culture and laws that should be adjusted to patients' best interests

The observed Taiwanese neonatal professionals' more conservative attitudes than their worldwide colleagues towards end-of-life (EOL) decision making may stem from cultural attitudes toward death in children and concerns about medicolegal liability.…

Tags: 2013, Attitude Of Health Personnel, Attitude To Death, Backlog, Decision Making, Female, Hospital, Humans, Journal Article, Journal of Medical Ethics, Male, Medical Staff, Neonatology, Nursing Staff, Resuscitation Orders, Tang Siew Tzuh, Terminal Care

Exploring communication difficulties in pediatric hematology: oncology nurses

BACKGROUND: Communication plays an important role for the well being of patients, families and also health care professionals in cancer care. Conversely, ineffective communication may cause depression, increased anxiety, hopelessness and decreased of…

The experiences of Chinese family members of terminally ill patients - a qualitative study

AIM: To describe and understand the experiences of Chinese family members of terminally ill patients during the end of life process in a palliative care unit. BACKGROUND: Palliative care aims to provide care to dying patients and their family…

Paediatric fever management: continuing education for clinical nurses

PURPOSE: This study examined the influence of level of practice, additional paediatric education and length of paediatric and current experience on nurses' knowledge of and beliefs about fever and fever management. METHOD: Fifty-one nurses from…

Consultation with children in hospital: children, parents' and nurses' perspectives

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To explore children's, parents' and nurses' views on participation in care in the healthcare setting. BACKGROUND: Children have a right to be consulted and involved in their care. DESIGN: The grounded theory method was used and…

Hospital for the children

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Tags: 2006, Attitude Of Health Personnel, Backlog, Cancer Care Facilities/organization & administration, Child, England, Hospital Planning/organization & administration, Hospital/organization & administration/psychology, Hospitals, Houlston A, Humans, Journal Article, Nurse's Role, Nursing Staff, Nursing Standard, Oncologic Nursing/organization & administration, Pediatric Nursing/organization & administration, Pediatric/organization & Administration, PedPal Lit

Nurses' attitudes to pain management during routine venepuncture in young children

Venepuncture is one of the most commonly performed clinical procedures carried out on young children. Evidence indicates inconsistency in the use of pain management strategies during these procedures. A survey method was used to explore nurses' views…

Nurse-led paediatric pre operative assessment: an equivalence study

AIM: to explore whether nurses can undertake the pre operative assessment of children prior to day case surgery as safely as senior house officers. DESIGN: a randomised controlled trial involving 595 children, using an equivalence methodology (a…

Clinician predictions of intensive care unit mortality

OBJECTIVE: Predicting outcomes for critically ill patients is an important aspect of discussions with families in the intensive care unit. Our objective was to evaluate clinical intensive care unit survival predictions and their consequences for…

Evaluation of patient-care protocol use by various providers

Factors explaining variability among caregivers in the intent to restrict life-support interventions in a pediatric intensive care unit

OBJECTIVE: To explore patient-related factors which influence the decisions of pediatric intensive care unit (ICU) caregivers to restrict life-support interventions. DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey. SETTING: A university-affiliated pediatric ICU.…

End-of-life care in the pediatric intensive care unit: attitudes and practices of pediatric critical care physicians and nurses

OBJECTIVE: To determine the attitudes and practices of pediatric critical care attending physicians and pediatric critical care nurses on end-of-life care. DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey. SETTING: A random sample of clinicians at 31 pediatric…

Pediatric nurses' individual and group assessments of palliative, end-of-life, and bereavement care

BACKGROUND: Although pediatric nurses working in children's hospitals often provide care to dying children, little is known about their palliative care beliefs and experiences as individuals or members of groups within the hospital. OBJECTIVE: To…

Tracking the route to sustainability: a service evaluation tool for an advance care planning model developed for community palliative care services.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: The study aim was to develop a service evaluation tool for an advance care planning model implemented in community palliative care., BACKGROUND: Internationally, advance care planning programmes usually measure success by…

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