What's in this special issue : volume 24 : issue 4

Abstract

In this special issue of Nursing in Critical Care, we place the spotlight on bereavement care in adult, paediatric and neonatal intensive care. It has been our privilege to work with authors whose scholarly contributions to this edition echo and support our quest to raise the profile and importance of this topic. Caring for the critically ill is often defined by advanced knowledge, technical expertise, and physical life support. Yet, despite intensive medical management, the critical care team commonly experience and provide patient and family end of life care. In this collection of papers, various aspects of dying, death, grief and bereavement are critically examined through primary research and case study analyses, both within and beyond the environment of intensive care.