The last hours of living in the ICU - priorities of care for critical care nurses
| dc.contributor.author | Fouché, Nicola A | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-03-18T07:53:32Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-03-18T07:53:32Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2006 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2015-12-21T11:05:55Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Critical care is associated with a high mortality rate. While this varies, overall it is likely to be between 15% and 25%. In some cases death occurs almost immediately after an emergency admission and there is little time to prepare either the patient or the family. In the majority of cases, however, death occurs after a period of time. It may be an expected outcome, or it may become evident that further intervention and continuation of treatment is futile and distressing for the patient, the family, and especially the nursing staff. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Fouché, N. A. (2006). The last hours of living in the ICU - priorities of care for critical care nurses. <i>South African Journal of Critical Care</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17983 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Fouché, Nicola A "The last hours of living in the ICU - priorities of care for critical care nurses." <i>South African Journal of Critical Care</i> (2006) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17983 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Fouche, N. A. (2006). The last hours of living in the ICU-priorities of care for critical care nurses. Southern African Journal of Critical Care, 22(2), 65-67. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1562-8264 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article AU - Fouché, Nicola A AB - Critical care is associated with a high mortality rate. While this varies, overall it is likely to be between 15% and 25%. In some cases death occurs almost immediately after an emergency admission and there is little time to prepare either the patient or the family. In the majority of cases, however, death occurs after a period of time. It may be an expected outcome, or it may become evident that further intervention and continuation of treatment is futile and distressing for the patient, the family, and especially the nursing staff. DA - 2006 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - South African Journal of Critical Care LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2006 SM - 1562-8264 T1 - The last hours of living in the ICU - priorities of care for critical care nurses TI - The last hours of living in the ICU - priorities of care for critical care nurses UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17983 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17983 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Fouché NA. The last hours of living in the ICU - priorities of care for critical care nurses. South African Journal of Critical Care. 2006; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17983. | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | Health & Medical Publishing Group | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Division of Nursing and Midwifery | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ | en_ZA |
| dc.source | South African Journal of Critical Care | en_ZA |
| dc.source.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ | |
| dc.title | The last hours of living in the ICU - priorities of care for critical care nurses | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
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| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Article | en_ZA |