Parents' experience of a follow-up meeting after a child's death in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit.

Autor: Brink HL; Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Odense University Hospital, Sdr. Boulevard 29, DK-5000 Odense C, Denmark. Electronic address: helle.brink@rsyd.dk., Thomsen AK; Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Odense University Hospital, Sdr. Boulevard 29, DK-5000 Odense C, Denmark., Laerkner E; Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Odense University Hospital, Sdr. Boulevard 29, DK-5000 Odense C, Denmark.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Intensive & critical care nursing [Intensive Crit Care Nurs] 2017 Feb; Vol. 38, pp. 31-39. Date of Electronic Publication: 2016 Aug 12.
DOI: 10.1016/j.iccn.2016.06.006
Abstrakt: Objective: 'To identify parents' experience of a follow up meeting and to explore whether the conversation was adequate to meet the needs of parents for a follow-up after their child's death in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU).
Design and Setting: Qualitative method utilising semi-structured interviews with six pairs of parents 2-12 weeks after the follow-up conversation. The interviews were held in the parents' homes at their request. Data were analysed using a qualitative, descriptive approach and thematic analysis.
Findings: Four main themes emerged: (i) the way back to the PICU; (ii) framework; (iii) relations and (iv) closure.
Conclusion: The parents expressed nervousness before the meeting, but were all pleased to have participated in these follow-up meetings. The parents found it meaningful that the follow-up meeting was interdisciplinary, since the parents could have answers to their questions both about treatment and care. It was important that the staff involved in the follow-up meeting were those who had been present through the hospitalisation and at the time of the child's death. Parents experienced the follow-up meeting as being a closure of the course in the PICU, regardless the length of the hospitalisation.
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