{"id":7569,"date":"2025-06-28T19:16:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T19:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/end-of-life-clinician%e2%80%91family-communication-in-icu-a-retrospective-observational-study-%e2%80%91-implications-for-nursing\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T05:05:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T05:05:35","slug":"end-of-life-clinician%e2%80%91family-communication-in-icu-a-retrospective-observational-study-%e2%80%91-implications-for-nursing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/end-of-life-clinician%e2%80%91family-communication-in-icu-a-retrospective-observational-study-%e2%80%91-implications-for-nursing\/","title":{"rendered":"End of life clinician\u2011family communication in ICU: a retrospective observational study \u2011 implications for nursing"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article was originally published as: End of life clinician\u2011family communication in ICU: a retrospective observational study \u2011 implications for nursing<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Abstract<\/h2>\n

Objective: The objective of this study was to identify practice issues that influence end of life communication and care of patients and families in the intensive care unit (ICU).
\nDesign: This study used a retrospective observational approach utilising a medical record review.
\nSetting: An Australian metropolitan mixed medical\/surgical ICU.
\nSubjects: There are two parts to this study. The first part related to all of the patients who died in the ICU in one calendar year, a total of 97. The second part of this study related to a random selection of 25% of these patients, a total of 24.
\nResults: This study showed that death in the ICU was often anticipated, and that whilst communication between family and medical personnel was evident in the medical record, the involvement or occurrence of communication between the nurse and the family was not recorded, and that nurses were included in only 25% of formal family meetings.
\nConclusion: Whilst this study confirmed that death is often predicted for critically ill patients, and opportunities for communication with the family or next of kin assists to achieve consensus on end of life decisions, the involvement of nurses, as primary care\u2011givers is not well represented in the medical record, thus undermining the importance of the nurses role in direct patient care that extends to the family in the ICU.<\/p>\n

Authors<\/h2>\n
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  • Melissa Bloomer<\/li>\n
  • Susan Lee<\/li>\n
  • Margaret O’Connor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Keywords<\/h2>\n

    end of life, communication, family support<\/p>\n

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