[Good palliative care in the intensive care unit: for nurses, a way to prospect]

Caring for dying patients is part of daily practice for the nurses working in intensive care unit (ICU). Few studies have documented what nurses consider to be "good palliative care" in this context. This phenomenological study was conducted in four phases and was designed to understand how the provision of "good palliative care" is expressed according to nurses' perspectives. Data were collected through group interviews, observation sessions followed by individual interviews and group validation sessions. "good palliative care" is expressed by the consideration of six dimensions of the person, as proposed by Gastmans et al. (1998), namely: physical, relational, psychological, moral, social and spiritual.