| Popis: |
Technology is having a significant impact in neonatal and children’s palliative care. Babies are surviving both extreme prematurity and life-limiting conditions for extended periods of time, albeit with complex morbidity and invasive technological interventions. Simultaneously, the domains of private and professional are no longer so clearly defined, with access to information, the means to share it and social media, all rapidly advancing. Certainty about best practice is debated, and decision-making in intricate cases is complex. Nurses working in neonatal palliative care must assimilate technological advances in clinical and non-clinical domains and also understand and work with the impact of the technologies upon the babies and families they support. Simultaneously, a national shortage of registered nurses and ongoing austerity measures in the UK may present another set of difficulties. Salary, benefits and working conditions can all present a range of challenges to the nurse at the cotside. Each of these issues may be seen as a risk to the well-being of the neonatal palliative care nurse, putting them in danger of stress, moral distress and burnout. When such symptoms present, they potentially impact not only on the individual nurse but also on the care we deliver. However, an alternative outcome of exposure to adversity is that the nurse develops resilience. |
