End-of-Life Care in Intensive Care Units: Nursing strategies of family involvement at the end of lifeAbstract.Background: Family members of people dying in the intensive care unit (ICU) are exposed to many stress factors and they often do not ...
Relatives or ’Zugehörige’? – An attempt to explore the meaning of termsAbstract.Background: Societal change has an impact on social coexistence and it is associated with pluralisation of family patterns, ...
Background: Since the WHO study “Family Health Nursing” (FHN) the concepts have been established different within Europe. Due to this, the international project “Family Health Nursing in European Communities” was started in order to develop a standardised ...
Worldwide the majority of relatives endorsed family witnessed resuscitation and witnessed invasive procedures (FWR) and considered this practice as helpful. However, professionals are primarily against this practice. How relatives in Swiss hospitals ...