Journal of emergency nursing : JEN : official publication of the Emergency Department Nurses Association
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Emergency nurses care for dying patients daily. The process of dying in an emergency department can be complicated. Research on specific obstacles that impede the delivery of end-of-life care in emergency departments and behaviors that support it is limited. ⋯ It is hoped that the results of this study will help increase and facilitate the discussions regarding end-of-life care in emergency departments. Realistic initial implications include finding ways to decrease workloads of emergency nurses and increase direct patient care. Another important implication would be the improvement of ED designs. Further research in the area of end-of-life care in emergency settings is recommended.
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The purpose of this project was to develop operational criteria to "close the ED waiting room". ⋯ Staff-based participatory research was an effective method to design an operational change. Nurses developed four explicit criteria describing when the waiting room should be closed.