In the article “ A study of lived experiences of registered nurses who have provided end-of-life care within an intensive care unit”, by Holms in 2014, the author discussed the qualitative research that was done to determine what registered nurse’s knew about life of end care and and how they felt about end of life care in the intensive care unit. In this study the phenomenological qualitative research design was used and took place in an ICU in Scotland. “Phenomenological studies describe the meaning of the lived experiences of several individuals about a concept or phenomenon” (Holms, 2014). Therefore, the real life experiences of nurses in the ICU in Scotland were observed within the study and the nurses were interviewed in order to collect
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The researcher then interviewed each one asking them a series of 8 questions, analyzed their answers, and found a pattern within the participant’s answers. Next, the researcher determined 5 main themes that covered all of the major similarities found within the participant’s answers. These categories included: integrated care systems, communication, the intensive care environment, education and training, and staff distress (Holms, 2014). Holms concluded that the nurses felt that the integrated care system, LCP, had many positive results in their ICU, that communication was essential between the co-workers, that the ICU environment had some kind of affect on end of life care, that they received little education and training on end of life care, and that they as nurses were not able to distress accordingly demonstrating several emotions after having an end of life patient. Although there were several conclusions, “Fundamentally, all patients at the end of their lives should have the right to high-quality, compassionate and dignified care” (Holms, …show more content…
Yes, symptom management is good for all patients, but the point of the study is to see what is good for the individual patient. This study is trying to put into effect the idea that by incorporating patient’s unique genetic variations that are specific to them individually, the health care field could potentially see a significant change in the nursing practice and patient outcomes. In conclusion, “the use of genetic variation to understand and predict human responses and to tailor nursing interventions is a powerful concept that could inform – and fundamentally change – nursing practice” (Munro, 2015). By being able to comprehend and anticipate patient’s different genetic variations, and then provide nursing interventions that are specific to the individual- nursing practice will be changed and it will no longer be just able general symptom
The researcher then interviewed each one asking them a series of 8 questions, analyzed their answers, and found a pattern within the participant’s answers. Next, the researcher determined 5 main themes that covered all of the major similarities found within the participant’s answers. These categories included: integrated care systems, communication, the intensive care environment, education and training, and staff distress (Holms, 2014). Holms concluded that the nurses felt that the integrated care system, LCP, had many positive results in their ICU, that communication was essential between the co-workers, that the ICU environment had some kind of affect on end of life care, that they received little education and training on end of life care, and that they as nurses were not able to distress accordingly demonstrating several emotions after having an end of life patient. Although there were several conclusions, “Fundamentally, all patients at the end of their lives should have the right to high-quality, compassionate and dignified care” (Holms, …show more content…
Yes, symptom management is good for all patients, but the point of the study is to see what is good for the individual patient. This study is trying to put into effect the idea that by incorporating patient’s unique genetic variations that are specific to them individually, the health care field could potentially see a significant change in the nursing practice and patient outcomes. In conclusion, “the use of genetic variation to understand and predict human responses and to tailor nursing interventions is a powerful concept that could inform – and fundamentally change – nursing practice” (Munro, 2015). By being able to comprehend and anticipate patient’s different genetic variations, and then provide nursing interventions that are specific to the individual- nursing practice will be changed and it will no longer be just able general symptom