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Icu Nurses

Running head: RESEARCH PAPER

Research Paper
Darrell Ragan
Valdosta State University
School of Nursing
Dr. Maura Schlairet
Nov 23, 2008

Intensive care units (ICUs) were designed to provide highly skilled, lifesaving nursing care to viable patients with acute illnesses or injuries. Patients with chronic and/or terminal illness were not expected to be admitted to these units, with the possible exception of acute exacerbations of reversible complications. Patients whose care needs changed from curative to palliative were intended to be transferred out of critical care to patient care environments more suited to end-of-life care. However, as more patients become “chronically critically ill”, critical care nurses are being asked more often to provide care to patients on their deathbeds (Puntillo et al., 2001). Deciding which ICU patients are actually dying remains an extremely inexact science, and the transition to palliative care is not one easily made.......


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