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Palliative Care and the ICU

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Author: Deb
Date: Feb 24, 2009 12:18 pm
We have a hospice within our healthcare system and they use a pamphlet called "Gone From My Sight" The Dying Experience by Barbara Karnes. They share that with PC in the hospital and it is useful for some pts, but I have not found anything for my families of pts whom we have withdrawn from support, because that is a little different. I am considering writing something of my own. I usually do education at the bedside, but families are stressed and forget, or you are explaining to mult different family members each time you go in the room.
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Re:Re:Info for family on the actively dying patient (by ChesapeakeMD on 02/24/2009)
I do bedside education as well, but as you say with multiple stressed family members and the changing patient presentation...I too have decided to write my own pamphlet for our ICU. I did the same for a concise Advance Directives brochure.

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