Pediatric Nurses’ Individual and Group Assessments of Palliative, End-of-Life, and Bereavement Care
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This study surveyed pediatric nurses in a freestanding children’s hospital regarding their PEOLB beliefs and experiences in caring for dying children and their families. The study describes the PEOLB beliefs and practices of individual nurses, but also characterizes different groups of nurses based on the similarity of their views about palliative care. Additionally, the study examines unit-level variation in pediatric nurses’ degree of collaboration with a hospital-based palliative care team when caring for dying children and their families.