End-of-life care in the ICU: Supporting nurses to provide high-quality care.

Abstract

ICU care has traditionally focused on curative treatment, but making the decision to withdraw life-sustaining therapies, the there is an increasing awareness of the key role palliative and barriers to providing good end-of-life care, factors that support comfort care play. Through a review of recent literature on end- good end-of-life care, and specific guidelinesfor the withdrawal of-life care and withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies in the of life-sustaining therapies. Using this information, a checklist to intensive care unit, four themes have emerged: the challenges of support end-of-life care by critical care nurses was created.