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Critically Ill Patients: Family Experiences of Interfacility Transfers From Rural to Urban Centers and Impact on Family Relationships
A critical illness event is intensely stressful for family members and can lead to negative psychological, emotional, social and financial consequences. In geographically rural areas, critically ill patients may require an interfacility transfer to an urban centre for advanced critical care services...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9850375/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36172740 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10748407221124254 |
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author | Burns, Margie Bally, Jill Burles, Meridith Peacock, Shelley |
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description | A critical illness event is intensely stressful for family members and can lead to negative psychological, emotional, social and financial consequences. In geographically rural areas, critically ill patients may require an interfacility transfer to an urban centre for advanced critical care services. In this context, research suggests that these family members from rural areas experience additional burdens, yet little is known about these experiences. An interpretive phenomenological approach was used to explore lived experiences of family members from rural areas whose critically ill relative undergoes an interfacility transfer to an urban centre for advanced critical care services. Participants described feelings of vulnerability in the urban centre, the need to protect the critically ill patient and other relatives, maintaining responsibilities at home, navigating family relationships, and a loss of connection during the transfer window. These findings may better position nurses to address family members’ stress and anxiety during this experience. |
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spelling | pubmed-98503752023-01-20 Critically Ill Patients: Family Experiences of Interfacility Transfers From Rural to Urban Centers and Impact on Family Relationships Burns, Margie Bally, Jill Burles, Meridith Peacock, Shelley J Fam Nurs Research A critical illness event is intensely stressful for family members and can lead to negative psychological, emotional, social and financial consequences. In geographically rural areas, critically ill patients may require an interfacility transfer to an urban centre for advanced critical care services. In this context, research suggests that these family members from rural areas experience additional burdens, yet little is known about these experiences. An interpretive phenomenological approach was used to explore lived experiences of family members from rural areas whose critically ill relative undergoes an interfacility transfer to an urban centre for advanced critical care services. Participants described feelings of vulnerability in the urban centre, the need to protect the critically ill patient and other relatives, maintaining responsibilities at home, navigating family relationships, and a loss of connection during the transfer window. These findings may better position nurses to address family members’ stress and anxiety during this experience. SAGE Publications 2022-09-29 2023-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9850375/ /pubmed/36172740 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10748407221124254 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Research Burns, Margie Bally, Jill Burles, Meridith Peacock, Shelley Critically Ill Patients: Family Experiences of Interfacility Transfers From Rural to Urban Centers and Impact on Family Relationships |
title | Critically Ill Patients: Family Experiences of Interfacility
Transfers From Rural to Urban Centers and Impact on Family
Relationships |
title_full | Critically Ill Patients: Family Experiences of Interfacility
Transfers From Rural to Urban Centers and Impact on Family
Relationships |
title_fullStr | Critically Ill Patients: Family Experiences of Interfacility
Transfers From Rural to Urban Centers and Impact on Family
Relationships |
title_full_unstemmed | Critically Ill Patients: Family Experiences of Interfacility
Transfers From Rural to Urban Centers and Impact on Family
Relationships |
title_short | Critically Ill Patients: Family Experiences of Interfacility
Transfers From Rural to Urban Centers and Impact on Family
Relationships |
title_sort | critically ill patients: family experiences of interfacility
transfers from rural to urban centers and impact on family
relationships |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9850375/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36172740 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10748407221124254 |
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