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The moral experience of parents regarding life-support decisions for their critically-ill children: a preliminary study in FranceFranco A Carnevale
Montreal Children s Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada
J Child Health Care 10:69-82. 2006..These findings raise important issues for clinical practice and further research in France...
Daily living with distress and enrichment: the moral experience of families with ventilator-assisted children at homeFranco A Carnevale
Montreal Children s Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Pediatrics 117:e48-60. 2006..This study involved an examination of moral phenomena inherent in (1) the individual experiences of the ventilator-assisted child, siblings, and parents and (2) everyday family life as a whole...
Ethical care of the critically ill child: a conception of a 'thick' bioethicsFranco A Carnevale
Montreal Children s Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3H 1P3
Nurs Ethics 12:239-52. 2005..These case studies reveal that ethical dilemmas in pediatric critical care can be traced to relational tensions over respect, trust and power rooted in the disparity of moral horizons among the persons involved...
Struggling to do what is right for the child: pediatric life-support decisions among physicians and nurses in France and QuebecFranco A Carnevale
Montreal Children s Hospital, Canada
J Child Health Care 16:109-23. 2012....
Signs of life and signs of death: brain death and other mixed messages at the end of lifeMary Ellen Macdonald
Insituttes of Health Research New Emerging Team Family Caregiving in Palliative and End of life Care, Montreal, Canada
J Child Health Care 12:92-105. 2008..The case study presented in this article demonstrates the necessity for more research and clinical training in communication issues regarding brain death and end-of-life care with families in critical care situations...
Parental involvement in treatment decisions regarding their critically ill child: a comparative study of France and QuebecFranco A Carnevale
Montreal Children s Hospital, Montreal, Canada
Pediatr Crit Care Med 8:337-42. 2007..Anglo-American settings have adopted decision-making models where parents are regarded as responsible for such life-support decisions, while in France physicians are commonly considered the decision makers...
Family caregivers of palliative cancer patients at home: the puzzle of pain managementAnita Mehta
McGill University Health Center, Psychosocial Oncology, Montreal General Hospital, 1650 Cedar Avenue, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1A4
J Palliat Care 26:78-87. 2010....
Family caregivers of palliative cancer patients at home: the puzzle of pain managementAnita Mehta
McGill University Health Center, Psychosocial Oncology, Montreal General Hospital, 1650 Cedar Avenue, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1A4
J Palliat Care 26:184-93. 2010....
The psychosocial effects of cancer-related lymphedemaAnna Towers
Palliative Care Division, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Palliat Care 24:134-43. 2008..Our research findings will inform educational initiatives and cancer rehabilitation programs...
The birth of tragedy in pediatrics: a phronetic conception of bioethicsFranco A Carnevale
School of Nursing, Wilson Hall, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Nurs Ethics 14:571-82. 2007..The phronetic agent addresses tragic dilemmas involving children as a narrator of contextualized temporal embodied human (counter)stories...
Strategizing a game plan: family caregivers of palliative patients engaged in the process of pain managementAnita Mehta
McGill University Health Center, Psychosocial Oncology, Montreal General Hospital, 1650 Cedar Ave, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Cancer Nurs 33:461-9. 2010..One challenge is pain management. They are often unprepared and unsupported as they attempt to meet this responsibility. There are few studies that examine what this responsibility entails...
The story of Margaret and her family: forced choices, obligations, and hopeFranco A Carnevale
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Pediatr Nurs 30:238-41. 2004
Using participant observation in pediatric health care settings: ethical challenges and solutionsFranco A Carnevale
School of Nursing and Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
J Child Health Care 12:18-32. 2008....
Revisiting Goffman's Stigma: the social experience of families with children requiring mechanical ventilation at homeFranco A Carnevale
Montreal Children s Hospital, Montreal, Canada
J Child Health Care 11:7-18. 2007....
Parental perspectives on hospital staff members' acts of kindness and commemoration after a child's deathMary Ellen Macdonald
Pediatric Palliative Care Program, Montreal Children s Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Pediatrics 116:884-90. 2005..This study explores the significance of these acts for bereaved parents...
Understanding the private worlds of physicians, nurses, and parents: a study of life-sustaining treatment decisions in Italian paediatric critical careFranco A Carnevale
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
J Child Health Care 15:334-49. 2011..Features of helpful and unhelpful communication with parents are highlighted, which should be considered in educational and practice changes...
Patient decision making among older individuals with cancerFay J Strohschein
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Qual Health Res 21:900-26. 2011..Careful attention to the multifaceted components of patient decision making among older individuals with cancer provides guidance for research, supportive interventions, and targeted follow-up care...
A conceptual and moral analysis of sufferingFranco A Carnevale
School of Nursing, Wilson Hall, Room 210, McGill University, 3506 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2A7
Nurs Ethics 16:173-83. 2009..This article concludes with a recommendation for a paradigm shift in how suffering can be better understood, through the practice of empathic attunement...
Understanding what residents want and what residents need: the challenge of cultural training in pediatricsMary Ellen Macdonald
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Med Teach 29:444-51. 2007..There is increasing recognition of the need for sophistication in the way culture is understood and taught in medicine...
Decisional challenges for children requiring assisted ventilation at homeKathleen Cranley Glass
Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, 3647 Peel Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
HEC Forum 18:207-21. 2006
Learning from the experience of others: ethical issues surrounding the use of clinical data for teaching and other professional activitiesKathleen Cranley Glass
McGill Biomedical Ethics Unit, Faculty of Medicine, 3647 Peel St, Montreal QC H3A 1X1, Canada
Ann R Coll Physicians Surg Can 35:571-3. 2002..Strategies for ensuring sound ethical standards are recommended...
Dawning of awareness: the experience of surrogate decision making at the end of lifeJane Chambers-Evans
McGill University Health Center, Quebec
J Clin Ethics 16:28-45. 2005
Should I stay or should I go? Parental struggles when witnessing resuscitative measures on another child in the pediatric intensive care unit*Josée Gaudreault
From Pediatric Critical Care FAC, McGill University, Montreal Children s Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada and Pediatric Critical Care JG, McGill University, Montreal Children s Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Pediatr Crit Care Med 13:146-51. 2012..The aim of this study was to examine the experiences of parents encountering the critical deterioration and resuscitative care of other children in the pediatric intensive care unit where their own child was admitted...
Pediatric palliative care: a qualitative study of physicians' perspectives in a tertiary care university hospitalThérèse St-Laurent-Gagnon
Centre de réadaptation Marie Enfant and Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Palliat Care 24:26-30. 2008..Although this study was conducted in one Canadian centre, the results raise questions that should be examined in other settings. A vague concept of palliative care may delay the provision of palliative care to children...
A prospective study of adverse reactions to the weaning of opioids and benzodiazepines among critically ill childrenCéline Ducharme
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Montreal Children s Hospital, 2300 Tupper, Montreal, Que H3H 1P3, Canada
Intensive Crit Care Nurs 21:179-86. 2005..The authors recommend that the rate of weaning of opioids and benzodiazepines in critically ill children be tailored to the length of time the child received continuous infusions of these agents...
Moral experience: a framework for bioethics researchMatthew R Hunt
Centre de recherche en éthique CRÉUM, University of Montreal, C P 6128, Succ Centre Ville, Montreal, QC H3C 3J7, Canada
J Med Ethics 37:658-62. 2011..In this paper we present our conceptualisation of moral experience, articulate its epistemological and ontological foundations and discuss opportunities for empirical bioethics research using this framework...
Stakeholders' conceptualizations of the nurse practitioner role in the pediatric emergency departmentLouise Murray
RN, MSc, Nursing Practice Consultant, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, QC, Canada
Nurs Leadersh (Tor Ont) 22:88-100. 2010..It is imperative for those developing new roles to be well informed about stakeholders' conceptualizations during the early planning phase...
Attitudes and practices of cardiologists and surgeons who manage HLHSMilan Prsa
Montreal Children s Hospital, Division of Cardiology, 2300 Tupper St, Montreal, Quebec, H3H 1P3, Canada
Pediatrics 125:e625-30. 2010..We conducted a survey to determine which management options pediatric cardiologists and cardiac surgeons in North America discuss and recommend when counseling parents after the diagnosis of hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS)...
Ethical considerations in cross-linguistic nursingFranco A Carnevale
School of Nursing, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Nurs Ethics 16:813-26. 2009....
Partnership: an analysis of the concept within the nurse-client relationshipMae H Gallant
School of Nursing, McGill University, University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Adv Nurs 40:149-57. 2002..This is hardly surprising as conceptual definitions of partnership differ in scope and vary according to the context of the partnership and types of partners...
What we know (and do not know) about raising children with complex continuing care needsFranco A Carnevale
J Child Health Care 12:4-6. 2008
I'm trying to heal...noise levels in a pediatric intensive care unitIsabelle H Milette
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Montreal Children's Hospital, McGill University Health Centre
Dynamics 14:14-21. 2003..The orientations of these strategies are threefold: 1) architectural-acoustic design, 2) equipment design and, most importantly, 3) staff education...
Examining parental communication in pediatric critical careFranco A Carnevale
Pediatr Crit Care Med 9:113-4. 2008
'It's okay, it helps me to breathe': the experience of home ventilation from a child's perspectiveRebecca J Earle
Pediatric Medicine, IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
J Child Health Care 10:270-82. 2006..Nurses must ensure that these children have an opportunity to communicate their perspectives, in order to provide care that is clinically effective and child-centered...
A comparison between single and double-pump syringe changes of intravenous inotropic medications in childrenMargaret L Powell
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Montreal Children's Hospital, Montreal, QC
Dynamics 15:10-4. 2004..However, the SP practice can also be highly suitable when considering the overall benefits and risks of both practices of syringe changes. Implications for nursing are discussed...
Pressure ulcers in pediatric critical care: examining the evidenceFranco A Carnevale
Pediatr Crit Care Med 4:383-4. 2003
Decisions that matter: recognizing the contextuality of decision-makingFranco A Carnevale
Can J Nurs Res 34:5-7. 2002
Betwixt and between: searching for nursing's moral foundationsFranco A Carnevale
Can J Nurs Res 34:5-8. 2002
Evaluation of a sedation protocol for intubated critically ill childrenEren Alexander
Montreal Children's Hospital, 2300 Tupper, Montreal, Que, Canada HH IP3
Intensive Crit Care Nurs 18:292-301. 2002....
