Intensive care nurses’ perceptions of ‘good’ end-of-life care for the adult patient who has had treatment withdrawn or withheld: A North Island non-metropolitan ICU nursing study.

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Intensive care nurses’ perceptions of ‘good’ end-of-life care for the adult patient who has had treatment withdrawn or withheld: A North Island non-metropolitan ICU nursing study.

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Intensive care is a place for the critically ill. It is a place of advanced technology where alarms, lights and noise are plentiful and where privacy and dignity are not always able to be given the highest priority. ICUs are places catering for the most acutely unwell patients, a number of these patients do not recover. A percentage of those patients who die, do so after extensive discussions, when treatment is withdrawn or withheld. The focus turns from cure to comfort for the patient and th...

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Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2006

Creator

Hine, Catherine

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https://hdl.handle.net/10652/6610

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North Island (N.Z.) / New Zealand / intensive care nurses / intensive care units (ICU) / death and dying / end of life care / perceptions / barriers / surveys / Health sciences / Nursing / Acute care

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