Nurses Providing End-of-Life Care for Infants and Their Families in the NICU: A Review of the Literature

Advances in Neonatal Care

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 471-479

  Gibson, Kim ^a   Hofmeyer, Anne ^b   Warland, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bereavement; compassion; end of life care; family; infant; moral distress; neonatal intensive care unit; nurses' experience; qualitative; resilience

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COPING BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; JOB STRESS; MORALITY; NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NEONATAL NURSE; NEWBORN; NURSING EDUCATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TERMINAL CARE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, NURSING; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MORALS; NURSES, NEONATAL; OCCUPATIONAL STRESS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 85061051717     PISSN: 15360903     EISSN: 15360911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ANC.0000000000000533     Document Type: Review

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