A letter to my five-year-old daughter.
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Am J Nurs
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Sarah Brand McCarthy is a clinical psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, and a Public Voices Fellow at AcademyHealth in partnership with The OpEdProject. Contact author: The author is grateful to the staff in the PICU at Boston Children's Hospital and their policies that made the love her family experienced possible. This essay is dedicated to nurses everywhere who show up every day and who make the unbearable bearable. Illustration by Regan Donovan.
A letter to my five-year-old daughter.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Understanding a hospitalized, school-aged child's stress in the PICU: the application of picture books in nursing care].
Hu Li Za Zhi
June 2013
Department of Nursing, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, ROC.
Hospitalization in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) can be a very stressful and sometimes traumatic experience for school-aged children due to illness, painful procedures, unfamiliar environment, and separation from family. We incorporated picture books into PICU nursing care to explore the stress response in a school-aged child with compartment syndrome who was hospitalized in the PICU. Observation, interview and communication with the patient were used to assess her psychological reactions and emotional and behavioral responses to stress related to hospitalization and medical treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFamily involvement in end-of-life care in a paediatric intensive care unit.
Nurs Crit Care
January 2008
Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Western Bank, Sheffield, UK.
End-of-life care (ELC) on a paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) is a fundamental aspect of clinical practice and yet often remains a highly emotive and challenging issue. Every year, many children die in PICU often following the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment, and as health professionals we have a duty to provide ELC that meets the needs of the dying child and their family. To achieve this, there is a growing emphasis on incorporating parental views on withdrawal of intensive care especially in time and place.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMatters of spirituality at the end of life in the pediatric intensive care unit.
Pediatrics
September 2006
Medical Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
Objective: Our objective with this study was to identify the nature and the role of spirituality from the parents' perspective at the end of life in the PICU and to discern clinical implications.
Methods: A qualitative study based on parental responses to open-ended questions on anonymous, self-administered questionnaires was conducted at 3 PICUs in Boston, Massachusetts. Fifty-six parents whose children had died in PICUs after the withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies participated.
Parents of critically ill children have their needs too! A literature review.
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September 1989
Children are very special people in the lives of their parents. Much of the life of the parents is concerned with meeting the needs of the children, giving them nurturance, love, protection and support. A child's parents will be the dominant factor in providing that environment in which the child develops and comes to understand his/her self, role in the family unit and relationship with the world at large.
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