Once again, Vanderbilt NICU in Nashville leads the way in nurses' emotional support.

摘要: The year was 1994. A nurse named Andrew Todd in the Vanderbilt University Medical Center NICU looking for information on why he felt so overwhelmed while caring dying babies. He found nothing. At that time, nurses did not really talk about using, remouing, or withholding life support to each other. Todd, without formal research training, decided study his peers and ask them their fears, heartaches, despair when babies who were dying. With from ethicist Richard Zaner, PhD, wrote a groundbreaking book called Journey of Heart: Stories grief as told by NICU. Published 1995 Press, this text, no longer print, first openly display feelings children whom technological might be futile. paved way others question goals, successes, failures neonatal medicine. It is uncertain whether any change took place at after Todd's book. seems man before time. Fast forward 2004. Nurse Angel Ewing, Case Manager same NICU, sees need may experiencing moral distress. And now home Dr. Brian Carter, neonatologist known work perinatal ethics palliative care. Together Ewing neither have ever met created an ongoing program provide ethical emotional those working Carter describe here.