{"id":7741,"date":"2025-06-28T21:49:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T21:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/critical-care-nurses-knowledge-about-the-care-of-deceased-adult-patients-in-an-intensive-care-unit\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T05:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T05:05:08","slug":"critical-care-nurses-knowledge-about-the-care-of-deceased-adult-patients-in-an-intensive-care-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/critical-care-nurses-knowledge-about-the-care-of-deceased-adult-patients-in-an-intensive-care-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical care nurses&#8217; knowledge about the care of deceased adult patients in an intensive care unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: <strong>Critical care nurses&#8217; knowledge about the care of deceased adult patients in an intensive care unit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Original Article Link: <a href='https:\/\/www.ajan.com.au\/index.php\/AJAN\/article\/view\/1792' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download PDF: <a href='https:\/\/www.ajan.com.au\/index.php\/AJAN\/article\/download\/1792\/522' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Click Here to Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p>Objective: The purpose of this study was to identify knowledge deficits about the care of deceased patients among critical care nurses.<br \/>\nDesign: The research was conducted as a descriptive study in the adult intensive care units of a university hospital in Istanbul. The data were collected using a questionnaire.<br \/>\nSetting: The study was conducted with nurses working in the medical and surgical intensive care units of a university hospital, including the coronary, neurosurgery, cardiovascular, post\u2011anaesthesia and emergency intensive care units.<br \/>\nSubjects: The subjects were 61 critical care nurses.<br \/>\nFindings: The majority of nurse respondents (75.4%) did not have a certificate in intensive care nursing and 95.1% had not received education about the care of a deceased patient. There is no standard protocol at the hospital for deceased patient care. The majority of nurses stated they removed instruments, catheters, tubes, dressings from the body and cleaned drainage and secretions, but only 8.1% reported they dressed the patient in a clean gown and combed their hair. Of the nurse respondents, 24.5% did not provideemotional support to the individual\u2019s family.<br \/>\nConclusion: Nurses implemented appropriate clinical activities after death, however did not demonstrate appropriate support behaviours toward the patient\u2019s family or loved ones.<\/p>\n<h2>Authors<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sevim<\/li>\n<li>G\u00fclay Altun U\u011fra\u015f, MSc, RN G\u00fclay Altun U\u011fra\u015f, MSc, RN<\/li>\n<li>Sabahat Durdu<\/li>\n<li>Meryem Kuba\u015f<\/li>\n<li>G\u00fcler Aksoy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Keywords<\/h2>\n<p>intensive care nurse, post-mortem care, nursing care, deceased patient<\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n<p>References not available for this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: Critical care nurses&#8217; knowledge about the care of deceased adult patients in an intensive&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[5086,4110,3897,5085],"class_list":["post-7741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-deceased-patient","tag-intensive-care-nurse","tag-nursing-care","tag-post-mortem-care","wpcat-124-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Critical care nurses&#039; 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