TY - JOUR T1 - Threats to parents’ roles during the process of their child dying in the paediatric intensive care unit JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs SP - 118 LP - 118 DO - 10.1136/eb-2015-102297 VL - 19 IS - 4 AU - Vanessa Battista AU - Chris Feudtner Y1 - 2016/10/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/19/4/118.abstract N2 - Commentary on: Butler AE, Hall H, Willetts G, et al. Family experience and PICU death: a meta-synthesis. Pediatrics 2015;136:e961–73OpenUrlAbstract/FREE Full Text.Understanding the experience of being a parent of a child who is dying in the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) can guide clinicians to support these families.Clinicians should allow parents to participate in caregiving, engage them in decision-making, provide information, treat the child as a person, prepare keepsakes and support parents after the child's death.Further research should include perspectives of other family members, such as siblings and grandparents, and describe their experiences of a child who is dying in the PICU.Beyond the newborn period, the death of a hospitalised child is most likely to occur in the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU). While intensive care environments typically provide highly technical care aimed at sustaining life, growing awareness and acceptance of palliative … ER -