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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"ICU nursing"”.
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Modeling of ICU nursing workload to inform better staffing decisions
… preventable harm in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Many medical publications suggest nursing workload as a major contributor to patient safety. However, BIDMC was not using any tool to measure nursing workload, and as a result, nurse staffing decisions were made solely based on the ad hoc …
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Intensive care nurses’ perceptions of ‘good’ end-of-life care for the adult patient who has had treatment withdrawn or withheld: A North Island non-metropolitan ICU nursing study.
… always able to be given the highest priority. ICUs are places catering for the most acutely unwell patients, a number of these patients do not recover. A percentage of those patients who die, do so after extensive discussions, when treatment is withdrawn or withheld. The focus turns from cure …
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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
Moral distress has been covered extensively in nursing literature and increasingly in the literature 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 …
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Revisiting the Fork in the Road: Exploring the Meaning of Critical Incident Stress Among Intensive Care Unit Nurses
… 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 known as a critical …