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Transitioning With Grace: Improving Quality Of Life For Comfort Care Patients In The Intensive Care Unit, Melissa Ashley
Transitioning With Grace: Improving Quality Of Life For Comfort Care Patients In The Intensive Care Unit, Melissa Ashley
Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects
The primary aim of this project was to develop and execute a standard protocol of interventions for comfort care patients on a medical intensive care unit. Staff at a 15 bed MICU at a Midwest urban teaching hospital from June 1 until August 11, 2018 were trained to execute a standardized protocol of interventions for comfort care patients. Seventeen MICU patients who transitioned to comfort care were offered a standardized set of evidence-based interventions, after staff attended educational in-services on providing high quality end of life (EOL) care. Checklists were used to determine intervention compliance. Pre-project and post-project surveys were …