ArticleNursing ethics2018
Limitation of therapeutic effort experienced by intensive care nurses.
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- Nurses' Experience in Providing End-of-Life Care in Intensive Care Unit: A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Experiences of intensive care unit nurses in providing end-of-life care in public hospitals: a phenomenological study.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Decision-making process regarding passive euthanasia: Theory of planned behavior framework.Nursing ethics · 2025Article
- Withdrawal/Withholding of Life-Sustaining Therapies: Limitation of Therapeutic Effort in the Intensive Care Unit.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Observational
- Do not resuscitate orders and limitation of therapeutic effort: Ethical challenges in healthcare teams in Chile.Salud colectiva · 2024Article
- Competencies of the nurses in the limitation of therapeutic effort in the intensive care unit: An integrative review.International journal of nursing sciences · 2024Review
- Moral distress among critical care nurses when excecuting do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders in a public critical care unit in Gauteng.The Southern African journal of critical care : the official journal of the Critical Care Society · 2023Article
- Experiences and attitudes of medical professionals on treatment of end-of-life patients in intensive care units in the Republic of Croatia: a cross-sectional study.BMC medical ethics · 2022Article
- Perceptions of Patients and Their Families Regarding Limitation of Therapeutic Effort in the Intensive Care Unit.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
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Abstract
background: Nurses who practice limitation of therapeutic effort become fully involved in emotionally charged situations, which can affect them significantly on an emotional and professional level.
objectives: To describe the experience of intensive care nurses practicing limitation of therapeutic effort.
method: A qualitative, phenomenological study was performed within the intensive care units of the Madrid Hospitals Health Service. Purposeful and snowball sampling methods were used, and data collection methods included semi-structured and unstructured interviews, researcher field notes, and participants' personal letters. The Giorgi proposal for data analysis was used on the data. ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS:: This study was approved by the Ethical Research Committee of the relevant hospital and by the Ethics Committee of the Rey Juan Carlos University and was guided by the ethical principles of voluntary enrollment, anonymity, privacy, and confidentiality.
results: In total, 22 nurses participated and 3 themes were identified regarding the nurses' experiences when faced with limitation of therapeutic effort: (a) experiencing relief, (b) accepting the medical decision, and (c) implementing limitation of therapeutic effort.
conclusion: Nurses felt that, although they were burdened with the responsibility of implementing limitation of therapeutic effort, they were being left out of the final decision-making process regarding the same.
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