Rural Emergency Nurses’ End-of-Life Care Obstacle Experiences: Stories from the Last Frontier
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- 作者：Renea L. Beckstrand ; PhD ; RN ; CCRN ; renea@byu.eduAuthor Vitae ; Jonathan Rohwer ; MS ; FNP-cAuthor Vitae ; Karlen E. Luthy ; DNPAuthor Vitae ; Janelle L.B. Macintosh ; PhDAuthor Vitae ; Ryan J. Rasmussen ; MSN-FNPAuthor Vitae
- 关键词：Emergency ; End of life ; Obstacles ; Emergency nurse ; Rural ; Rural nursing
- 刊名：Journal of Emergency Nursing
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：January 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：43
- 期：1
- 页码：40-48
- 全文大小：468 K
- 卷排序：43
文摘
Rural emergency nurses face unique obstacles to providing quality end-of-life (EOL) care. Stories provided by emergency nurses embody their most difficult EOL care obstacles.MethodsA questionnaire was sent to 53 rural hospitals. Respondents were asked to share stories that epitomized the obstacles faced while providing EOL care in the rural emergency setting.ResultsThe lack of an ideal death (eg, the nurse personally knows the patient, issues with family members, and unknown patient wishes) was the top obstacle. Other reported obstacles were insufficient ED staff and power struggles between nurses and physicians.DiscussionRural emergency nurses often provide EOL care to friends and family members, whereas their urban counterparts are likely to transfer care to nurses with no relation to the dying patient. Not only does caring for patients whom the nurse knows or is related to cause great distress to rural emergency nurses, but this unfortunately common situation also may prevent patients from receiving the highest quality EOL care.