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The Last Frontier: Rural Emergency Nurses' Perceptions Of End-Of-Life Care, Virginia Claudia Giles
The Last Frontier: Rural Emergency Nurses' Perceptions Of End-Of-Life Care, Virginia Claudia Giles
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Introduction: Caring for dying patients is part of working in a rural emergency department. Rural emergency nurses are prepared to provide life-saving treatments but find there are barriers to providing end-of-life (EOL) care. This study was completed to discover what the size, frequency, and magnitude of obstacles were in providing EOL care in rural emergency departments as perceived by rural emergency nurses.
Methods: A 58-item questionnaire was sent to 52 rural hospitals in Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and Alaska. Respondents were asked to rate items on size and frequency of perceived barriers to providing EOL care in rural emergency departments. …