Nursing

Intensive care medicine

Engineering

Critically ill

Multidisciplinary approach

Palliative care

Mechanical engineering

Pediatrics

Neonatal intensive care unit

Sociology

Medicine

Limiting

Multidisciplinary team

Intensive care

Social science

PEDIATRICS

Purpose: A significant number of newborns are affected by life-limiting or life-threatening conditions, many due to congenital malformations and extreme prematurity. Despite advances in the medical care of these critically ill newborns, a number of these infants ultimately do not survive. Providing comfort as well as end-of-life care is essential in the care of these infants. Currently, there are no neonatal palliative care guidelines within our neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). A multidisciplinary neonatal palliative care committee was established to assess the need for neonatal palliative …

Identifying Attitudes, Knowledge Gaps, and Barriers to Providing Neonatal Palliative Care in a Level IV NICU