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Family Behaviors As Unchanging Obstacles In End-Of-Life Care: 16-Year Comparative Data, Jasmine Burson Jenkins
Family Behaviors As Unchanging Obstacles In End-Of-Life Care: 16-Year Comparative Data, Jasmine Burson Jenkins
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Background: Critical care nurses (CCNs) provide end-of-life (EOL) care for critically ill patients. CCNs face many obstacles while trying to provide quality EOL care. Some research has been published focusing on obstacles CCNs face while trying to provide quality EOL care; however, research focusing on family behavior obstacles is limited.Objective: To determine if magnitude scores (obstacle item size x obstacle item frequency of occurrence) have changed since previous magnitude score data were first gathered in 1999.Methods: A random geographically dispersed sample of 2,000 members of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) was surveyed. Responses from quantitative Likert- type items …