• Dimens Crit Care Nurs · Sep 2009

    The "big picture": communicating with families about end-of-life care in intensive care unit.

    • Joan Liaschenko, Susan O'Conner-Von, and Cynthia Peden-McAlpine.
    • Center for Bioethics and the School of Nursing at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, USA.
    • Dimens Crit Care Nurs. 2009 Sep 1;28(5):224-31.

    AbstractThis article presents the findings of a qualitative study investigating how critical care nurses include families in end-of-life care. The major theme, "Supporting the Families' Journey Through the Dying Process," illustrates how critical care nurses organize information to construct the "big picture" of the patients' deteriorating status and artfully communicate this to families.

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