Category Archive for: "critical care"

Prevalence of and factors related to discordance about prognosis between physicians and surrogate decision makers and critically ill patients

September 30, 2018 critical care, ICU

IMPORTANCE: Misperceptions about prognosis by individuals making decisions for incapacitated critically ill patients (surrogates) are common and often attributed to poor comprehension of medical [...]
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Experiences and Expressions of Spirituality at the End of Life in the Intensive Care Unit

September 30, 2018 critical care, ICU

RATIONALE: The austere setting of the intensive care unit (ICU) can suppress expressions of spirituality. OBJECTIVES: To describe how family members and clinicians experience and [...]
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Spiritual care: the nurses’ experiences in the pediatric intensive care unit

September 30, 2018 critical care, ICU

Physical aspects of disease management are often more evident than those related to spirituality or spiritual care. Spirituality may appear more crucial in pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) [...]
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Addressing spirituality during critical illness: A review of current literature

February 14, 2018 critical care, spiritual care

Objectives: The purpose of this review is to provide an overview of research on spirituality and religiosity in the intensive care setting that has been published since the 2004–2005 American [...]
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Brisbane Declaration: Culturally Sensitive Critical Care Nursing

December 5, 2017 critical care, nursing

The Brisbane Declaration was developed by a working group on behalf of WFCCN. Its key principles were approved at the WFCCN/ACCCN World Congress in Brisbane, Australia on 23 April 2016; the [...]
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