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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"intensive care nurses"”.
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Pediatric Intensive Care Nurses : Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder-Like Symptoms
… just such a critical incident for pre-hospital care personnel (Linton, Webb, & Kommor, 1988). Nurses, as well as emergency physicians and support staff have also been found to experience similar stressors for extended lengths of times (Whitley, 1989; Whitley, Allison, & Gallery, 1991). Horowitz, …
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Neonatal Intensive Care Nurses’ Perceptions of Nurse Leader Behaviors and Their Impact on the Workplace Environment
… is a crucial component in today’s healthcare organizations as nurses make up the largest profession in healthcare overall. Nurse leaders have the ability to affect the environment of the nurses’ workplace in both positive and negative ways, thus impacting their Quality of Nurse Work Life …
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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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Intensive care nurses’ perceptions of ‘good’ end-of-life care for the adult patient who has had treatment withdrawn or withheld: A North Island non-metropolitan ICU nursing study.
Intensive care is a place for the critically ill. It is a place of advanced technology where alarms, lights and noise are plentiful and where privacy and dignity are not always able to be given the highest priority. ICUs are places catering for the most acutely unwell patients, a number of these …
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A Study of Variability in Locating the External Reference Point for Central Venous Pressure Determination
… to determine the variability occurring among intensive care nurses in locating, with two methods, the external reference point for central venous pressure (CVP) determinations. In the literature on CVP and on CVP value discrepancies, no reports were found of studies related to variability …
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The Effect of Oral Care on Intracranial Pressure in Critically Ill Adults
A major goal in the care of patients with neurological problems is to prevent or minimize episodes of increased intracranial pressure (ICP). Elevations in ICP in response to nursing interventions have been acknowledged since the 1960’s when ICP monitoring was first introduced in the clinical …