title: Personal reflection: death brokering for critical care nurses.
abstract: End-of-life care and the dying patient have been an area lightly covered in my nursing school experience. While I expected the topics to surface in more detail in conjunction with the critical care nursing unit, this was not the case. This article is a personal reflection on my experience in critical care nursing and the deficits involving death and dying education in both institutional and professional settings.
authors.affiliation: Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.
authors.forename: Lorena
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bajer
mesh_terms: D001293:Attitude to Death; D001601:Bereavement; D003422:Critical Care / Q000379:methods; D003643:Death; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D004645:Empathy; D006801:Humans; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000379:methods*