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Emergency Nurses' Department Design Recommendations For Improved End-Of-Life Care, Elise Megan Corbett
Emergency Nurses' Department Design Recommendations For Improved End-Of-Life Care, Elise Megan Corbett
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Introduction: Death occurs frequently in emergency departments (EDs). Obstacles present in EDs can make providing end-of-life (EOL) care stressful and challenging for emergency nurses. Although death is common in EDs, there is a paucity of research regarding ED design as an obstacle to EOL care. The purpose of this study was to identify emergency nurses experiences and recommendations regarding ways ED designs negatively or positively impacted EOL care for dying patients and their families. Methods: At 25-item questionnaire regarding ED design and EOL care was sent to a geographically dispersed, national random sample of 500 emergency nurses. Inclusion criteria were …
Emergency Nurses' Department Design Recommendations For Improved End-Of-Life Care, Elise Megan Corbett
Emergency Nurses' Department Design Recommendations For Improved End-Of-Life Care, Elise Megan Corbett
Theses and Dissertations
Introduction: Death occurs frequently in emergency departments (EDs). Obstacles present in EDs can make providing end-of-life (EOL) care stressful and challenging for emergency nurses. Although death is common in EDs, there is a paucity of research regarding ED design as an obstacle to EOL care. The purpose of this study was to identify emergency nurses experiences and recommendations regarding ways ED designs negatively or positively impacted EOL care for dying patients and their families. Methods: At 25-item questionnaire regarding ED design and EOL care was sent to a geographically dispersed, national random sample of 500 emergency nurses. Inclusion criteria were …
Emergency Nurses' Perception Of Department Design As An Obstacle To End-Of-Life Care, Ryan Jay Rasmussen
Emergency Nurses' Perception Of Department Design As An Obstacle To End-Of-Life Care, Ryan Jay Rasmussen
Theses and Dissertations
Introduction: Of the 119.2 million visits to the emergency department (ED) in 2006, it was estimated that about 249,000 visits resulted in the patient dying or being pronounced dead on arrival. In two national studies of emergency nurses' perceptions of end-of-life (EOL) care, ED design was identified as a large and frequent obstacle to providing EOL care. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of ED design on EOL care as perceived by emergency nurses.
Methods: A national, geographically dispersed, random sample of 500 members of the Emergency Nurses Association were sent a 25-item questionnaire regarding ED …