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Intensive Care Unit Nurse: Could We Call A Palliative Care Consult? Intensive Care Unit Provider: It's Too Early. Palliative Care Integration In The Intensive Care Unit: The Struggle To Translate Evidence Into Practice, Natalie S. Mcandrew, Jill L. Guttormson, Sean Marks, Mary Rhodes, Jayshil Patel, Colleen Mccracken
Intensive Care Unit Nurse: Could We Call A Palliative Care Consult? Intensive Care Unit Provider: It's Too Early. Palliative Care Integration In The Intensive Care Unit: The Struggle To Translate Evidence Into Practice, Natalie S. Mcandrew, Jill L. Guttormson, Sean Marks, Mary Rhodes, Jayshil Patel, Colleen Mccracken
College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications
Despite evidence regarding the value of palliative care, there remains a translation-to-practice gap in the intensive care setting. The purpose of this article is to describe challenges and propose solutions to palliative care integration through the presentation and discussion of a critical care patient scenario. We also present recommendations for a collaborative palliative care practice framework that holds the potential to improve quality of life for patients and families. Collaborative palliative care is characterized by close working relationships with families, interprofessional intensive care unit healthcare teams, and palliative care specialists. The shortage of palliative care specialists has become a pressing …
The Community Of Nursing: Moral Friends, Moral Strangers, Moral Family, Carolyn A. Laabs
The Community Of Nursing: Moral Friends, Moral Strangers, Moral Family, Carolyn A. Laabs
College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications
Unlike bioethicists who contend that there is a morality common to all, H. Tristan Engelhardt (1996) argues that, in a pluralistic secular society, any morality that does exist is loosely connected, lacks substantive moral content, is based on the principle of permission and, thus, is a morality between moral strangers. This, says Engelhardt, stands in contrast to a substance-full morality that exists between moral friends, a morality in which moral content is based on shared beliefs and values and exists in communities that tend to be closely knit and religiously based. Of what value does Engelhardt’s description of ethics as …