BACKGROUND While nurses play a key role in identifying delirium, several authors have noted variability in their ability to recognize delirium. We sought to measure the impact of a simple educational intervention on the ability of intensive care unit (ICU) nurses to clinically identify delirium and to use a standardized delirium scale correctly. METHODS Fifty ICU nurses from two different hos...

Ariel M Modrykamien has provided an excellent review of the long-term consequences of treatment in the ICU and the importance of developing ICU clinics to provide comprehensive care to ICU survivors.1 The long-term outcomes of post-ICU admission include reductions in quality of life, lung function, and nutritional status, and impacts on psychological outcomes and cognition. Patients and their c...

BACKGROUND Intensive care information systems (ICIS) are continuously evolving to meet the ever changing information needs of intensive care units (ICUs), providing the backbone for a safe, intelligent and efficient patient care environment. Although beneficial for the international advancement in building smart environments to transform ICU services, knowledge about the contemporary developmen...

BACKGROUND Nowadays, ICU nurses play a significant role in the care of brain-dead patients and their families. Therefore, their knowledge, attitude and practice towards this issue are extremely important to the success of organ donation. OBJECTIVE To assess ICU nurses' knowledge, attitude and practice towards their role in the organ donation process from brain-dead patients and factors influe...

Aims: Moral distress elicits some responses from nurses. Identifying these responses can lead into developing effective strategies which assist nurses with facing them. The present study tries to elicit responses of ICU nurses to moral

INTRODUCTION The aim of the study was to determine whether the use of a nurses' protocol-directed weaning procedure, based on the French intensive care society (SRLF) consensus recommendations, was associated with reductions in the duration of mechanical ventilation and intensive care unit (ICU) length of stay in patients requiring more than 48 hours of mechanical ventilation. METHODS This pr...

Dear Editor, The medical personnel of the intensive care unit (ICU) encounter patients who are critically ill, have severe injuries, or require multiple life-sustaining interventions on a daily basis. Working in a stressful environment such as the ICU can be highly rewarding, but it may also have detrimental effects on the physiological and psychological well-being of the staff.1,2 A study by M...

OBJECTIVES Longitudinal studies exploring the evolution of health information technology functions provide valuable information about how technology systems are integrated and exploited in situ. This study reports changes in the distribution of functions for a specific health information technology, the tele-ICU, over time. The studied tele-ICU provided care to six remote ICUs within a local ge...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this descriptive study was to investigate the current situation of clinical alarms in intensive care unit (ICU), nurses' recognition of and fatigue in relation to clinical alarms, and obstacles in alarm management. METHODS Subjects were ICU nurses and devices from 48 critically ill patient cases. Data were collected through direct observation of alarm occurrence and ...

Nursing critically ill patients includes planning and performing safe discharges from Intensive Care Units (ICU) to the general wards. The aim of this study was to obtain a deeper understanding of the main concern in the ICU transitional process-the care before, during, and after the transfer of ICU patients. Interviews were conducted with 35 Swedish nurses and analysed according to grounded th...