title: Can the death of a child be good?
abstract: Fifty-four thousand children die each year despite the advances in care for children with acute and chronic illnesses. Demands for improved palliative and end-of-life care for children exist. Good death is a concept frequently used in the adult hospice movement. However, how can the death of a child be good? Analysis of good death can assist pediatric nurses to understand the concept and provide a framework for nurses in the clinical and research arenas to work together to develop and provide evidence-based, developmentally appropriate care for dying children and their families.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Marshall University, Huntington, WV 25755, USA. welchs@marshall.edu
authors.forename: Susan Bush
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Welch
mesh_terms: D001293:Attitude to Death; D002648:Child; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D008149:Love; D016294:Models, Nursing; D024802:Nurse's Role / Q000523:psychology; D015399:Nursing Research; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology; D010371:Pediatric Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D002666:Psychology, Child; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology; D012944:Social Support