Supporting parents when they lose critical ill child in intensive nursing and intensive care units
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The article deals with experiences of parents and critically ill children on intensive care units. In the literture survey, critically ill children and their parents are being followed during their stay in the intensive care unit, at the moment when the parents learn that their child is going to die and at death itself. The purpose of the literature survey was to improve the quality of active attendance to the parents of critically ill and dying children in intensive care units, as well as to be able to form propositions for better practice and for staff education. The article also describes fears and feeling of failure the parents are confronted with when death of their child becomes imminent, as well as the work of nurses and other health professionals in intensive care units. Care theory of Jean Watson was used. In the end the author gives advice to health workers regarding their reactions when a child dies, and forms proposition for qualitative attendance to the parents when their child dies and during the mourning process.Downloads
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