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  • End-of-life Care in Postgraduate Critical Care Nurse Curricula: An Evaluation of Current Content Informing Practice

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    Ranse, Kristen
    Delaney, Lori
    Ranse, Jamie
    Coyer, Fiona
    Yates, Patsy
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    Ranse, Kristen
    Ranse, Jamie C.
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    2019
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    Objectives: To identify and describe end-of-life care content in postgraduate critical care nursing courses in Australia. Methods: A purposive sampling technique was used to invite a postgraduate course convener from each higher education institution, identified through a search of the internet, offering a postgraduate course in critical care nursing (n = 17). An individual structured telephone survey was undertaken with each participant (n = 13). Descriptive statistics and content analysis of participant responses was undertaken to identify and describe the end-of-life content and modes of content delivery. Results: ...
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    Objectives: To identify and describe end-of-life care content in postgraduate critical care nursing courses in Australia. Methods: A purposive sampling technique was used to invite a postgraduate course convener from each higher education institution, identified through a search of the internet, offering a postgraduate course in critical care nursing (n = 17). An individual structured telephone survey was undertaken with each participant (n = 13). Descriptive statistics and content analysis of participant responses was undertaken to identify and describe the end-of-life content and modes of content delivery. Results: Participants agreed (92%) that end-of-life care content was important within post-graduate education, with 77% agreeing that more time should be allocated to focus on end-of-life care. The majority of courses addressed legal and ethical issues related to end-of-life care (77%), however this content was predominately covered in the context of organ donation (92%). The content least commonly addressed pertained to the work of the nurse in providing direct clinical care, including the physical changes experienced by the dying patient (31%), the process of withdrawing life sustaining treatment (15%), withdrawal of ventilation and symptom management (23%), emotional support to the family (23%) and care of the body after death (23%). Conclusion(s): The inclusion of end-of-life care content in critical care curricula is needed to address the complexity of this area of practice, including the care and inclusion of family, the physical care and emotional support of the patient and self-care for the nurse. It is recommended that targeted educational initiatives are implemented to improve the care that patients and their families receive and support nurses in the delivery of this care.
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    Conference Title
    AUSTRALIAN CRITICAL CARE
    Volume
    32
    Issue
    Supplement 1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aucc.2018.11.055
    Copyright Statement
    © 2019 Australian College of Critical Care Nurses Ltd. Published by Elsevier Australia. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
    Subject
    Clinical sciences
    Nursing
    Science & Technology
    Life Sciences & Biomedicine
    Critical Care Medicine
    General & Internal Medicine
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/392698
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