background: providing high-quality care in the intensive care units (icus) is a major goal of every medical system. nurses play a crucial role in achieving this goal. one of the most important responsibilities of nurses is sedation and pain control of patients. the present study tried to assess the effect of nurses’ practice of a sedation protocol on sedation and consciousness levels and the do...

Increasing numbers of patients living with obesity (PLWO) are admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). The goal of this qualitative study was to examine the experiences of ICU nurses who work with PLWO using the Othering framework developed by Canales in 2010. The first theme describes how PLWO become "Others" in the ICU. The second theme focuses on exclusionary Othering and how it manifests ...

This paper reports the evaluation of a Recursive-Diagnostic Framework (RDF) based paper prototype for a clinical information system in the intensive care unit (ICU). Based on an observation of the reliability and validity of RDF concepts when applied to real-world data, it was hypothesised that an RDF-based information design might facilitate more efficient information processing by ICU medical...

BACKGROUND ICU care providers often feel that the care given to a patient may be inconsistent with their professional knowledge or beliefs. This study aimed to assess differences in, and reasons for, perceived inappropriate care (PIC) across ICU care providers with varying levels of decision-making power. METHODS We present subsequent analysis from the Appropricus Study, a cross-sectional stu...

BACKGROUND Health care beliefs can have an effect on the efficiency and effectiveness of nursing practices. Nevertheless, how belief systems impact on the economic performance of intensive care unit (ICU) nurses is not known. This study aimed to explore the ICU nurses' beliefs and their effect on nurse's practices and behavior patterns regarding the health economics. METHODS In this study, a ...

Unexpected incidents are common in intensive care medicine. One means of detecting, diagnosing, and treating these events is use of physiologic displays that show the patients’ vital signs. Monitors currently in use in intensive care units (ICUs) provide information in numerical and waveform formats, but most such displays originated in patient monitors developed for use by anesthesiologists. T...

BACKGROUND Short-term deployment of nurses is usually used within the hospital units in order to 'balance the numbers' or to cover the shortage of staff in the different units. Often nurses in the intensive care unit (ICU) are sent to go and assist in other units, where there is not enough nursing staff or when their own unit is not busy. OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to explore ...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral disease that may be contracted by exposure to a newly recognized form of the coronavirus. It often manifests through a set of common respiratory symptoms that include fever and nonproductive cough. To date, SARS has no vaccine or definitive treatment. Approximately 20% of SARS patients develop respiratory failure, which requires mechanical ven...

The concept of caring is vague and complex, especially in critical environments such as the intensive care unit (ICU). ICU nursing includes not only patients but also extends to patients’ families, nurses, other health team members unit’s environment. A focused ethnographic study was conducted an Australian ICU. data collected from 35 registered nurses through various resources: participants' o...