what the best strategies nurse can use to support family to make difficult and complex decision at the end of life
This is particularly important should the person’s condition worsen, as that is an opportunity to review the goals of care and treatment options. Multiple meetings also acknowledge that decision making in the ICU is a process, with families needing time and information to come to terms with a poor prognosis to make decisions such as foregoing curative treatment or withdrawing life-sustaining therapies