Healthcare professionals’ knowledge, skills, and role in offering and facilitating memory making during end-of-life care in the adult intensive care unit

Factors associated with the decision to offer memory making in end‐of‐life: A survey of healthcare professionals in adult intensive care

“…We have previously reported memory making interventions to be predominately considered a nursing responsibility (Riegel, Randall, & Buckley, 2021), which is consistent with nurses’ roles in end‐of‐life care to facilitate a dignified death (Puente‐Fernandez et al, 2020). We have also reported important skills that enable the offer of memory making to include the healthcare professional's ability to connect and interact with the next of kin, being open to the potential of memory making as an intervention, and incorporating it as a standard end‐of‐life care practice they provide (Riegel, Randall, & Buckley, 2021). However, limited empirical data are available regarding memory making for the adult acute population and the supports required to facilitate memory making becoming an established and sustained end‐of‐life care intervention.…”

“…Interventions to support healthcare professionals offer memory making should include active learning strategies of simulation training in offering memory making, practicing the skills of creating objects, and the promotion of problem‐solving strategies to support healthcare professionals overcome barriers to offering memory making (Centre for Behaviour Change, 2021). In instances of limited resources, these supports should be first targeted for nursing professionals since it is reported that nurses play a dominant role in communicating with the families throughout the ICU admission (Wong et al, 2019) and perceive a professional responsibility for offering memory making to families (Riegel, Randall, & Buckley, 2021).…”

Family's experience of memory making in adult intensive care and its use in early bereavement: A descriptive qualitative study

“…Communication and information sharing with families is reported to often involve the registered nurse due to their ease of access for the family and their demeanour (Wong et al, 2015). Additionally, registered nurses have been reported to consider themselves having the time to spend with the family to provide for the family member's needs compared to medical practitioners (Riegel et al, 2021) and perceive a professional responsibility for memory making (Riegel et al, 2022b). The inclusion of registered nurses in patient information updates and providing registered nurses with increased communication skills training could assist with assessing the timing of when to offer memory making.…”

Assessment and determining factors of the awareness and knowledge of healthcare providers about Cardiogenic Oscillations and its effect on mechanically ventilated patients: A multivariate logistic modeling

“…The final questionnaire consisted of 22 questions divided into two parts and was designed based on current literature (Imanaka et al, 2014;Riegel et al, 2022). The questionnaire was used after being tested for validity with a small group of participants and consisted of structured responses with multiple-choice questions.…”