Parents’ Experience of the Transition with their Child from a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) to the Hospital Ward: Searching for Comfort Across Transitions

The pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) has been described as a stressful place for parents of critically ill children. Research to date has examined parents’ needs and stressors with a child in PICU. There is a paucity of research examining the experience for parents of a child who is transferred...

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Main Author: Berube, Kristyn M.
Other Authors: Fothergill-Bourbonnais, Frances
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23846
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-6482