Facilitated sensemaking: a strategy and new middle-range theory to support families of intensive care unit patients.
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in the intensive care unit (ICU). He is in a coma after a motor vehicle crash that resulted in head injury. She sits in the room hour after hour, rocking in the hard small chair, saying little, and wringing her hands in worry. Each time the alarms go off on the monitor, she startles in a vain attempt to locate the source of the sound and its meaning. She pushes the call light when the nurse does not attend to the alarms immediately, irritating the nurse with the frequent calls. Mrs Garcia’s fear is palpable. When asked by the nurse, “Is there anything I can do for you?” she says simply no in an unconvincing voice, with a wanting, lost look, unable to find the words to express her needs. goal of the model is to prevent adverse psychological outcomes. Throughout the article, facilitated sensemaking is applied to the case of Mrs Garcia and her family to illustrate the interrelationship between the concepts of the theory. Links between the central concept of facilitated sensemaking and the theories from which it was derived are also explored. The Garcia family is a composite case formed from actual observations gleaned from the original testing of the model.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Critical care nurse
دوره 30 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010