Palliative Care and Spirituality in Neonatal Nursing: Literature Review

Autor: Rukiye Çelik, Ebru Kılıçarslan Törüner
Jazyk: English<br />Turkish
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Hemşirelikte Araştırma Geliştirme Dergisi, Vol 25, Iss 3, Pp 56-75 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1307-9557
DOI: 10.69487/hemarge.1313360
Popis: Background: Although neonatal intensive care units mainly focus on saving lives, newborns and their families recommended providing palliative and spiritual care. Aim: To create a perspective on palliative and spiritual care for the newborns and their families of neonatal nursing, and the effective management of this process.Methods: This is a literature review. Results: Palliative care includes a comprehensive approach to life, death, and aftercare. Palliative care include pain management, symptom management, psychosocial and spiritual care. Spiritual care of patients and parents is significantly related to their well-being.Conclusion: Nurses can plan and implement palliative and spiritual care, using their roles of manager, caregiver, collaborator, leader, educator, researcher, and advocate. Palliative and spiritual care offered by nurses, will improve the health outcomes, ensure that the parents have a healthier period of loss and grief, and support holistic, individualized, family-centered care.
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