Melclin
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I was wondering about the Journals nerding it up today, and I came across an article in the Journal of Emergency Nursing on families being present at the resuscitation of their loved ones. It argued for the presence of the family at the resus, on the grounds that it's better for a sense of closure and better for letting them see that everything was done.
Someone wrote a letter to the editor in the next issue of the journal saying how right she was to let the family observe the resus and how important she had found it to be for families to be invovled. There is even a recommendation from the Emergency Nurses Association that families should be allowed to observe emergency invasive procedures.
For pre-hospital practitioners, it's pretty normal for the family to be looking over your shoulder during a resus. So how does everyone feel about the idea? Any thoughts, wisdom or, more importantly, studies that you know of regarding the matter?
Now I'm sure this has been discussed in some form throughout the threads, but I couldn't actually see a thread on it. Point away if there's something I missed.
Someone wrote a letter to the editor in the next issue of the journal saying how right she was to let the family observe the resus and how important she had found it to be for families to be invovled. There is even a recommendation from the Emergency Nurses Association that families should be allowed to observe emergency invasive procedures.
For pre-hospital practitioners, it's pretty normal for the family to be looking over your shoulder during a resus. So how does everyone feel about the idea? Any thoughts, wisdom or, more importantly, studies that you know of regarding the matter?
Now I'm sure this has been discussed in some form throughout the threads, but I couldn't actually see a thread on it. Point away if there's something I missed.