The caring continuum: role of the pediatric critical care advanced practice nurse in palliative care program development

Crit Care Nurs Q. 2010 Jul-Sep;33(3):292-7. doi: 10.1097/CNQ.0b013e3181ecd5a2.

Abstract

A caring continuum to children at the close of life can be established by broadening the scope of intervention available to these children in the ICU, general pediatric unit, and the clinic with critical care based advanced practice nursing team, providing close interdisciplinary coordination of complex care.

MeSH terms

  • Advanced Practice Nursing / education
  • Advanced Practice Nursing / organization & administration*
  • Algorithms
  • Cancer Care Facilities
  • Child
  • Communication
  • Continuity of Patient Care / organization & administration*
  • Empathy
  • Forecasting
  • Hospitals, Pediatric
  • Humans
  • Intensive Care Units, Pediatric / organization & administration
  • Models, Nursing
  • Nurse's Role / psychology*
  • Palliative Care / organization & administration*
  • Palliative Care / psychology
  • Patient Care Planning / organization & administration
  • Patient Care Team / organization & administration
  • Pediatric Nursing / education
  • Pediatric Nursing / organization & administration*
  • Program Development / methods
  • Texas