Critical care nurses’ attitude towards life-sustaining treatments in South East Iran
BACKGROUND:Life-sustaining treatments(LSTs)may prolong life but greatly decrease the quality of death.One factor influencing decision-making about withholding and withdrawing these treatments is the attitude of nurses.This study aimed to evaluate the attitude of critical care nurses towards life-sus...
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Published in | World journal of emergency medicine Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 59 - 64 |
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Main Authors | , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
China
World Journal of Emergency Medicine (WJEM)
2016
Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine |
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Summary: | BACKGROUND:Life-sustaining treatments(LSTs)may prolong life but greatly decrease the quality of death.One factor influencing decision-making about withholding and withdrawing these treatments is the attitude of nurses.This study aimed to evaluate the attitude of critical care nurses towards life-sustaining treatments in South East Iran.METHODS:In this cross-sectional study,'Ethnicity and Attitudes towards Advance Care Directives Questionnaire'was used to investigate the attitude of 104 critical care nurses towards lifesustaining treatments in three hospitals affiliated to Kerman University of Medical Sciences.RESULTS:The findings of this study indicated that although a majority of critical care nurses(77%)did not have personal desire for use of LSTs including CPR and mechanical ventilation,they had moderately negative to neutral attitude towards general use of LSTs(2.95 of 5).CONCLUSIONS:These findings suggest that nurses’attitude towards LSTs can be changed by inclusion of specific courses about death,palliative care and life-sustaining treatments in undergraduate and postgraduate nursing curricula.Educating Muslim nurses about religious aspects of LSTs may also improve their attitudes. |
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Bibliography: | Farideh Razban;Sedigheh Iranmanesh;Hasan Eslami Aliabadi;Mansooreh Azzizadeh Forouzi;Neuroscience Research Center, Institute of Neuropharmacology, University of Medical Sciences;School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kerman University of Medical Sciences;Birjand University of Medical Sciences ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 1920-8642 |
DOI: | 10.5847/wjem.j.1920-8642.2016.01.011 |