Table 2.

3 Wishes Program Characteristics for Survey Respondents

3WP initiator, N (%)	N = 117
Bedside nurse	90 (77%)
3 wishes team, not part of clinical team	15 (13%)
ICU physician	8 (7%)
Social work	2 (2%)
Palliative care	1 (1%)
Spiritual care	1 (1%)
Wish category, N (%)	N = 389
Keepsakes	193 (50%)
Humanizing the environment*	74 (19%)
Music	36 (9%)
Word clouds	25 (6%)
Rituals and spiritual support	18 (5%)
Facilitating connections	14 (4%)
Providing food and beverages for family	9 (2%)
Family care	6 (2%)
Treating the patient as an individual†	6 (2%)
Preparations and final arrangements	4 (1%)
Other	4 (1%)
Wish implemented by, N (%)	N = 389
Bedside ICU nurse	299 (77%)
> 1 person	39 (10%)
3 wishes team	32 (8%)
Spiritual care	9 (2%)
Other	10 (1%)
Timing of wish implementation, N (%)	N = 389
Antemortem	310 (80%)
Postmortem	79 (20%)

*Examples include hanging up pictures depicting the patient’s favorite things, providing the patient with a non-hospital blanket, putting up special occasion decorations (holiday, anniversary, birthday, wedding, etc.), buying the patient’s favorite flowers for the room

^†Examples include allowing the patient to wear clothes from home, pampering the patient with spa day, allowing the patient to go outside, swabbing the patient’s mouth with their favorite food or beverage