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Improving Rural Emergency Nurses Comfort During Palliative And End-Of-Life Communication, Abbie A. Styes, Mary J. Isaacson
Improving Rural Emergency Nurses Comfort During Palliative And End-Of-Life Communication, Abbie A. Styes, Mary J. Isaacson
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Background: Emergency nurses (ENs) often care for patients nearing the end of their lives or with life-limiting illnesses. However, ENs are hesitant to initiate palliative or end-of-life (PEOL) discussions because of a lack of comfort with these topics. Many ENs have no formal PEOL communication training which contributes to the lack of comfort with PEOL discussions in the emergency department (ED). Thus, the purpose of this quality improvement project was to determine how PEOL communication training affected rural ENs perceived comfort level during PEOL conversations.
Sample/Setting: A convenience sample of 14 registered nurses working in a rural Northern Plains ED. …