‘Show up and share’: How one UCLA ICU helps patients and staff live with dying

‘Show up and share’: How one UCLA ICU helps patients and staff live with dying 
Los Angeles Times; by Corinne Purtill; 3/20/25 

• Community is a nurse-led initiative in UCLA’s cardiothoracic intensive care unit that supports patients, their families and unit staff during the dying process.
• It gives nursing staff tools to care for a patient through the moment of death, to lobby for patients’ end-of-life preferences and to process their own grief after a loss.
• Nurses report feeling more connected to patients and to one another

Extraordinary things happen in the cardiothoracic intensive care unit at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. [Continue reading ...]