Nurses ’ perceptions of caring for parents of children with chronic medical complexity in the pediatric intensive care unit

Dramatic advances in neonatal and critical care have allowed medically fragile children to survive (Burns et al., 2010). Medical equipment and technological advances, such as ventilator support, feeding tubes, total parenteral nutrition and transplantation, have successfully prolonged the lives of children with life-threatening conditions, creating a new generation of long-term survivors of childhood-onset diseases (Cohen et al., 2011, Cohen and Patel, 2014). These children experience lifelong comorbidities that are associated with high mortality.

Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing - May 20, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Gabrielle Denis-Larocque, Karl Williams, Isabelle St-Sauveur, Margaret Ruddy, Janet Rennick Source Type: research