Book Review: Intensive Care for Nurses

Moral Distress in Intensive Care Unit Nurses: An Integrated Review

Introduction: Moral distress is a serious problem for health care professionals all over the world; it has detrimental effects for patients, nurses and organizations. Nurses in ICUs experience more moral distress due to their daily dealing with ethical problems and the stressful atmosphere. The purpose of this study was to conduct an integrated review and a combination of existing studies o...

Book Review Infection control in the Intensive Care Unit

“Infection Control In The Intensive Care Unit” by HK Saene, L Silvestri, MADe la Cal, and A Gullo, SpringerVerlag, 3 Edition, 2012, ISBN 9788847016002. «Infection Control In The Intensive Care Unit (ICU)», third edition, is a comprehensive book regarding the clinical microbiology of critically ill patients. It includes thirty chapters gathered under the same five different thematic networks as ...

Measuring Intensive Care Nurses’ Perspectives

http://ajcc.aacnjournals.org • BACKGROUND Attempts to improve end-of-life care increasingly focus on family-centered care, but few validated assessment tools exist. • OBJECTIVES To evaluate 3 new short questionnaires measuring nurses’ perspectives on family-centered end-of-life care in the intensive care unit and to show the usefulness of the questionnaires. • METHODS Principal components analy...

Book for Mothers and Nurses

Intensive Care Nurses’ Reaction to Futile Cares:A Phenomenological Study

Abstract Introduction: Emotional stress due to futile care is very high and decreasing level of futile care can result in decrease of stress and increase nurses’ job satisfaction. Objective: This study aimed to determine intensive care nurses’ reaction to futile cares. Methods: In this qualitative study, a phenomenological approach was used. This study was conducted to un...