Leading Groups

A Comfort Measures Only Checklist for Critical Care Providers

“…Led by a clinical nurse leader in a CNS doctoral program and a direct care palliative care CNS who serves as the clinical director of supportive and palliative care, this subcommittee included key stakeholders in direct care, leadership, administration, and education. 13,14 This included an intensivist who serves as the medical director of residency education and the trauma burn ICU, co-medical director of respiratory therapy, the director of clinical outcomes and professional practice evaluation located within the organization's quality center, a staff RN and unit director of the medical/surgical ICU (MSICU), the director of cultural excellence, and a resource nurse who covers the ICUs. In June, a third-year internal medicine resident, an internist and medical director of palliative care, the unit directors for the medical ICU (MICU) and MSICU, and the clinical director of nursing administration joined the project subcommittee.…”