Supporting patients and families religious and spiritual needs in ICU can we do more?
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Timmins, F. Naughton,M.T.,Plakas, S. & Pesut, B., Supporting patients and families religious and spiritual needs in ICU can we do more?, Nursing in Critical Care, 20, 3, 2015, 115 - 117Download Item:
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For both families and patients, admission
to the hospital environment can
be frightening. This sense of fear is
magnified in the intensive care unit
(ICU) by the severe conditions and an
intensive technological environment.
While nurses grow accustomed to this,
we know from first-hand experience
that patients and families experience
the ICU as a daunting and dehumanizing
environment. In the ICU, patients’
identities change as they lose emotional
intimacy (Plakas et al., 2009). ICUis also
the place where many, perhaps for the
first time, face their own mortality
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