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Moral Distress and Avoidance Behavior in Nurses Working in Critical Care and Non-Critical Care Units
… behavior between nurses currently practicing in critical care and non-critical care settings.</p><p><bold>Methods</bold>: A descriptive cross-sectional comparative design was used. The sample was comprised of a randomized subset of 370 critical care nurses, a convenience sample of 87 nurses from …
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Reducing Alarm Fatigue in Critical Care
<p><strong>Reducing Alarm Fatigue in Critical Care</strong></p> <p><strong>Abstract</strong></p> <p> This improvement project took place on the Critical Care Unit (CCU) of a non-profit hospital in Northern California. The unit houses 54 beds, employs over 210 employees, and houses the facility’s …
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Job satisfaction in critical care nurses
… was designed to explore job satisfaction among critical care nurses using an established conceptual framework of job satisfaction entitled the Job Characteristics Model (Hackman & Oldham, 1980). The standardized measures of general job satisfaction and other job design variables were the Job …
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Advancing practice in critical care nursing.
… presents a body of publications in the area of critical care nursing, for the consideration of the award Doctor of Philosophy by publication. The publications and their dissemination herein contribute to a new and original body of knowledge within critical care nursing practice. This thesis aims …
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Ethical Decision-Making among Critical Care Unit Nurses
The health care business has created complex relationships between consumers and health care institutions. Rising health costs, rationing of health care and medical technology have put critical care unit (CCU) nurses in complex environments where they must face ethical conflict. CCU nurses find …
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Critical care nurses' knowledge of cardiac rhythm strips
… Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) requirement that all institutions provide proof of competency of their employees. The purpose of this study considered whether critical care nurses who are ACLS-certified are able to accurately interpret cardiac rhythms. …
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Rapid tests for fungal infection in critical care
… infection present a diagnostic challenge in the critical care setting due to the poor accuracy and slow turnaround time associated with culture-based tests. While invasive Candida infection is a well-described condition with known high morbidity and mortality, Aspergillus infection is …
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Emotions, Intuitions and Risk Perception in Critical Care
… as it applies to bioethics and healthcare assumes a rational decision maker: someone who knows all his alternatives, has clear preferences, can rank and weigh risks and benefits of an intervention, and always acts in his own best interests. However, the growing body of research from …
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Comparison of the Behavioral Pain Scale and the Critical-Care Pain Observation Tool in Assessing Pain in Ventilated Critical Care Patients
… compare the Behavioral Pain Scale (BPS) and the Critical Care Pain Observation Tool (CPOT) in their effectiveness to identify the presence of pain in nonverbal mechanically ventilated critically ill patients. Nurses’ evaluation with the feasibility, clinical relevance, and satisfaction of the …
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Enhancing recovery in non-critical care emergency bowel resection
… fluids and diet when compared to traditional care in non-critical care (Level 0/1) patients following emergency bowel resection.<br/><br/>Method: A single centre comparative observational study was used to compare outcomes between two existing parallel groups of Level 0/1 emergency bowel …
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Reliability of Urinary Bladder Pressure Measurement in Critical Care
… Method: Prospective randomized study of 120 critically-ill adults who had UBPMs taken in four different positions and before and after three different IVs. All UBPMs except 20 were obtained by the principle investigator (PI). To determine inter-and intra-observer reliability the PI and a …
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Study of the Basic Knowledge Level of Critical Care Nurses
… relationship between the nurse's level of basic critical care nursing knowledge and the following variables: basic educational preparation, critical care nursing experience, cumulative nursing experience, specific critical care unit experience, and certification in critical care nursing. A …
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Extent and factors influencing research utilization among critical care nurses
… research findings in their clinical practice. In critical care, many scientifically validated findings are immediately available for utilization by the individual nurse; however, the extent of current research utilization among critical care nurses had not been adequately examined. The purpose of …
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Critical Care Nurses' perceptions of caring: A phenomenological study
The present study investigated critical care nurses' perceptions of caring and the factors which influence caring. Fifteen registered nurses who were actively employed in the critical care setting were interviewed. Two open-ended questions and appropriate cue questions were asked during the …
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The Nature of evidence to inform critical care nursing practice.
… presents a body of publications, in the area of critical care nursing, for consideration for the award of Doctor of Philosophy by Publication. The thesis is presented in three chapters: Introduction; Body of Work; and Research, Knowledge, Evidence and Practice. In the first chapter the emergence …
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On Critical Care Data and Machine Learning Loss Function Landscapes
Intensive Care Units (ICUs) are constantly under strain, with many vulnerable people needing urgent critical care. Often doctors do not have the capacity to accommodate everyone, and so it is important that patients are discharged when it is safe to do so. However, discharging a patient at the …
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Nurse Perspectives on Family-Centred Rounds in Adult Critical Care Units
Background: In critical care settings, family involvement in care is important. Family-centred rounds (FCR) are often seen as a component of family-centred care. Nurses have an important role in implementing FCR and their active participation is crucial. There is currently a lack of rigorous …
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Critical Care Nurses' Intention to Allow Family Presence during Resuscitation
… coupled with demographic variables predicted critical care nurses’ intention to allow FPDR. A descriptive correlational research design was used in this study. The Family Presence Risk-Benefit Scale (FPR-BS) was used to measure attitudes/behavioral beliefs towards FPDR. Intentions to allow …
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