Jading in the pediatric intensive care unit: Implications for healthcare providers of medically complex children.
Publication/Presentation Date
5-1-2004
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To discuss the phenomenon of jading within the context of the pediatric intensive care unit.
DESIGN: Drawing from their experience, the authors describe and then discuss a clinical scenario readily recognizable by pediatric intensive care unit practitioners: a child whose care requires the expenditure of a large amount of energy and resources, provides seemingly little reward, and leads to jading of the PICU staff.
CONCLUSION: Jading describes a process of exhaustion whereby apathy, cynicism, and callousness replace the drive to be responsive, to make a difference, and to care. The issue of jading has become an increasing area of concern in the pediatric intensive care unit, due in part to recurring, prolonged admissions, combined with the perception, at times, that continued medical care is fruitless. With a better understanding of the phenomenon of jading, and by reconsidering their own responses, pediatric intensive care unit practitioners can avoid becoming jaded.
Volume
5
Issue
3
First Page
275
Last Page
277
ISSN
1529-7535
Published In/Presented At
Levi, B. H., Thomas, N. J., Green, M. J., Rentmeester, C. A., & Ceneviva, G. D. (2004). Jading in the pediatric intensive care unit: Implications for healthcare providers of medically complex children. Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies, 5(3), 275–277. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.pcc.0000124022.65859.8e
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
15115567
Department(s)
Fellows and Residents
Document Type
Article