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Stressors of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Nurses Caring for Children with Extracorporeal Life Support

Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Uen, Shu-Ru
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http://ntur.lib.ntu.edu.tw//handle/246246/264548
Abstract
Background and purposes: In recent years, owing to the medical development and media spreading, patients and families are over expectations to the Extracorporeal Life Support (ECLS). The use of ECLS also becomes prevalent in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). The problems which the medical staff faces are as follows: what kinds of patients are suitable for use, who is able make the decision, the influences of the prognoses and the complications of the patients, the future life quality of the patient, who will be in charge of removing the ECLS or keeping it without unknown ending. It is wonder that this is to extend the patient’s life or death. For this, the ethical issue makes the nursing staff has to face not only high tension but also frustration and maladaptation of the medical environment. The purpose of this research was to explore the stressors that nurses of PICU may encounter when tending children using ECLS, and it also discusses the decision making process. Methods: It is a qualitative descriptive study. From January 1st to March 26th 2014, focus groups are being held with 15 nurses from Pediatrics ICU as participants, each meeting lasts 60 - 100 minutes. Semi-structured interviews are adopted to collect data, making the participants subjectively narrating and describing their experiences in taking care of children using ECLS, and their interactions with patients’ families. The interviews are recorded, processed and analyzed in hope to unveil its thorough picture beneath the data and to find nurses’ possible pressure sources when tending children with ECLS. Result: The data was analyzed according to the phenomenology methods suggested by Cloaizzi(1978) and categorized in four domains: the challenges of caring patient and his family, the medical care of ECLS, the self-preparedness of nurse competence, the ethical dilemma of clinical decision making. First, the challenges of caring patient and his family includes two themes: 1. The complexity of patient’s condition, the subthemes is includes the complexity and variety of the disease course, and the sudden loss of patient’s life. 2. The family’s uncertainty in illness among patients, the subthemes includes the struggle before they decide to receive treatment, the reluctance and anxiety when they wait for the operation of setting ECLS, the uncertain of future, the unrealistic expectation and the discrepancy in reality and perseverance during the end of life. Second, the self-preparedness of nursing competence, includes three themes: 1. Medical care of ECLS, the subthemes includes the unfamiliarity with the medical supply and equipment, the rush of preparation, the fear to operate the medical devices and their alarms, the fear to operate the circuit of ECLS. 2. The learning curve of the newbie, the subthemes includes the pressure when they firstly face the patients with ECLS, the upset and helpless feeling of self-learning. 3. The judgment and reaction during emergency, the subthemes includes lack of experience of caring ECLS patients, the inconsistence of the standard of medical care, the emergent management in abnormal situation, the psychological trauma after compilation occurs in patients. Third, the communication and co-operation between medical teams, includes two themes: 1. The adjustment of team work, the subthemes includes the urgent atmosphere during the placement of ECLS, the immediate support of emergent medical management, the capacity of cross-team members. 2. The decision making between different medical management, the subthemes includes multiple perspectives of medical management, the integration of medical management. Fourth, the ethical dilemma of clinical decision making, includes three themes: 1. The decision to place ECLS, the subthemes includes objective explanation, the respect for the choice of the family and the rest period of family for their psychological shock. 2. The consideration of ECLS and medical care of patients, the subthemes includes the struggle between scientific evidence and humanity, the balance between the standardization of the criteria of ECLS placement and the equality of medical care. 3. The decision making of the withdrawal of ECLS, the subthemes includes the consideration of life prolongation and life quality, the nature course of disease complications. Conclusion: This research suggests that the nurses are under several kinds of pressure in treating children with ECLS, among which the most dominant ones come from the families of the patients, the collaboration and communication required in inter-professional practice, the decision-making needed in clinical context, as well as their demand in ameliorating proficiency of nursing. This research hopes to provide a direction and guidance to medical staff who works in similar background to their better adaptation to the pressure, and to assist them in getting proper training in terms of learning new nursing skills with cutting-edge technology, and the ability to collaborate with others in inter-professional practice, as well as to increase hospice care for better nursing quality.
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兒童加護病房
體外維生系統
壓力源
SDGs

[SDGs]SDG3

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