title: A personal reflection: a letter to Grace.
abstract: This personal reflection chronicles one critical care nurse's experience with a neurological patient and her family. This article covers the care of one patient by one critical care nurses from admission to the intensive care unit, through multiples transfers in and out of the hospital until her eventual death 8 months later.
authors.affiliation: Intensive Care Unit East Presbyterian Tower, Oklahoma University Medical Center, USA. rpuckett41405@gmail.com
authors.forename: Regan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Puckett
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D003422:Critical Care / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D024802:Nurse's Role / Q000523:psychology*; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000523:psychology