Compassionate care during withdrawal of treatment: A secondary analysis of ICU nurses' experiences

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2018, Pages 1075-1086

  Efstathiou, Nikolaos ^a   Ives, Jonathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compassion; dignity; intensive care; qualitative; secondary analysis; withdrawal of treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN DIGNITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NURSE; RESEARCH ETHICS; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; UNITED KINGDOM; EMPATHY; ETHICS; FEMALE; HUMAN RELATION; INTENSIVE CARE NURSING; MALE; NURSING STAFF; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CRITICAL CARE NURSING; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MEDICAL FUTILITY; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; UNITED KINGDOM; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 85030870107     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: 14770989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0969733016687159     Document Type: Article

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