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Supporting families of critically ill children
Author(s) -
AMICO JUDY,
DAVIDHIZAR RUTH
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of clinical nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.94
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1365-2702
pISSN - 0962-1067
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2702.1994.tb00391.x
Subject(s) - critically ill , nursing , medicine , psychology , intensive care medicine
Summary• Having a critically ill child can be a heartbreaking experience. The sudden transformation of a healthy child to a critically ill or injured child causes parents to undergo feelings of pain and shock. • Parents with a critically ill child are in acute need of support and intervention by caregivers. • This article describes a parents' support group, conducted as part of a nursing programme student experience, in a pediatric critical‐care unit. This experience provides information concerning the group that others may wish to replicate.