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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"ICU nurses"”.
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Liver Transplant Education and Training for Medical Surgical ICU Nurses
<p>This project focuses on the CNL curriculum element of <em>Nursing Leadership </em>and explores the need for appropriate education and training for liver transplant as a new patient population for Medical Surgical ICU nurses. The transplant experience for these nurses currently include critically …
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Relationships between ICU Nurses’ Resilience, Job Stress, and Organizational Commitment
… the relationships between intensive care unit nurses' resilience, job stress, and organizational commitment. The possibility of the application of resilience to the hospital environment to provide basic data for program development to improve resilience and promote nurses' commitment to their …
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Perspectives of ICU Nurses on Professional Autonomy: A Descriptive Qualitative Study
… an essential component of intensive care unit (ICU) nursing practice. Working in rapidly changing clinical conditions, ICU nurses need to make decisions, advocate for their patients, and use their clinical judgment promptly. While professional autonomy has been linked to job satisfaction, …
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Moral Agency, Moral Imagination, and Moral Community: Antidotes to moral distress, as reported by experienced ICU nurses regarding the withdrawal of aggressive treatment
… of other health professions. Cases that cause nurses’ moral distress mentioned most frequently are those concerned with prolonging the dying process. Given the standard of aggressive treatment over comfort care that is typical in intensive care units, much of the existing moral distress …
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"What happens behind the curtains?" : an exploration of ICU nurses’ experiences of post mortem care
… of this study was to explore the experiences of ICU nurses performing post mortem care in an intensive care unit at a private hospital in Cape Town. In addition, the study set out to identify educational needs and to offer recommendations that may address these needs for this sample of ICU …
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Communication skills, Emotional labor and Burnou in intensive care unit nurses.
… skills, emotional labor,and burn out of ICU nurses. The subjects were 165 nurses who were working in the ICU of a university hospital. We used GICC (Global Interpersonal Communication Competence Scale), modified by Hur (2003),for rating communication skills. To assess emotional labor, …
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Living with Dying in the Pediatric ICU: A Nursing Perspective
… the journey to the end justly stressful and difficult for all involved. Unequivocally pediatric ICU nurses spend a significant amount of time at the bedside attempting to meet and manage the palliative care needs of the children and their families during this arduous time. However, the literature …
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Intensive care nurses? experiences of death in the ICU and the implications for postgraduate nursing pedagogy: a Heideggerian phenomenological study
Intensive care nurses’ experiences of death in the ICU and the implications for a postgraduate nursing pedagogy: A Heideggerian phenomenological study.The study sought to understand the phenomenon of the experiences of ICU nurses dealing with the deaths of patients under their care who die in the …
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Revisiting the Fork in the Road: Exploring the Meaning of Critical Incident Stress Among Intensive Care Unit Nurses
The nature of registered nurses’ (RNs’) work in the intensive care unit (ICU) places them at risk for encountering work-related critical incident stress. Critical incident stress is a term used to describe the broad and diverse range of responses that occur following a sudden and unexpected event …
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Improving Pre-Transplant Experiences for ICU Patients on the Heart Transplant Registry
Problem: Intensive care unit (ICU) patients are at risk of worsening of their cognitive, physical, and psychiatric functions (Mikkelsen, Netzer, & Iwashyna, 2019). Many heart transplant candidates are required to stay in the ICU for weeks or months prior to transplant surgery (UNOS, 2018), making …
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Bettering Patient Outcomes in the ICU with the ICU Liberation Bundle (A-F): A Thesis
Four million people get admitted to the ICU every year in the United States (Marra et al., 2017). These patients need life saving measures that can include mechanical ventilation, vasopressor medications, invasive procedures, as well as administration of sedation and analgesia. Many patients can …
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Related factor of delirium occurrence in the Intensive Care Unit patients
… the related factor of delirium occurrence in the ICU patients. The sample was 99 patients in the ICU at one university hospital located in Kyunggi-do. Data were collected from September 1 to October 31, 2006. The assessing tool for delirium was CAM-ICU developed by the Ely E W. Data were analyzed …
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Ethical dilemmas experienced by Health Care Professionals working in Intensive Care Unit Tshilidzini Hospital, Vhembe district in Limpopo Province
Background: Doctors and nurses working in ICU are always confronted with ethical dilemmas when caring for critically ill patients no matter where they practice. The ethical dilemmas experienced by ICU nurses and doctors include amongst other: freedom of choice, truth telling, distribution of …
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Nurse Beliefs And Other Influencing Variables On Nurses' Intentions And Decisions Regarding
… of detrimental effects from being together, some nurses are not convinced of the merits of family presence (FP). Implementation of family presence in adult ICUs remains controversial for nurses. The feelings of many nurses, who are gate keepers related to patient visitation, continue to influence …
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Nursing Perspectives and Opinions on Early or Delayed Sepsis Treatment: A Mixed Methods Approach
… diagnosis to initiating critical treatments. Nurses are vital in identifying early signs and symptoms of sepsis. Early sepsis treatment is essential to hinder preventable sepsis deaths. The purpose of this study was to gauge how critical care nurses who work in ED and ICU perceive factors that …
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A study on Recognition and Practices level by Nurses in Critical Care Unit about Nosocomial Infection Control & Prevention - on General Infection, MRSA & VRE Infection Control -
… was analysis to the recognition and practice by nurses in Critical Care Unit about general infection, MRSA, VRE infection control & prevention. Data were collected on June 12 to September 3, 2004 from 69 nurses in one university affiliated hospital located in Suwon of Kyung Ki Province. The …
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Knowledge, perceptions and experiences of nurses towards family centred care in adult intensive care units
Submission in fulfillment of the requirement for the Degree in Masters of Technology in Nursing, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2018.