background and aims: pain diagnosis is a frustrating effort especially due to the barriers in communication with patients in low level of consciousness therefore this study ,aimed at the evaluation of  utilizing bps by nurses for patients who are unable to express their pain because of their low level of consciousness, has been designed. materials and methods: this research is a semi-empirical ...

Dysthanasia means slow and painful death without quality of life. This study aimed to know whether nurses identify dysthanasia as part of the final process of the lives of terminal patients hospitalized at an adult ICU. This is an exploratory-qualitative study. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with ten nurses with at least one year of experience in an ICU, and interpreted ...

Compliance with hand hygiene guidelines by hospital physicians and nurses is universally low and there is a need to apply powerful intervention methods from social sciences in order to improve compliance. One method is the formation of implementation intentions (or action planning) in which concrete 'if then' plans are formulated to link an environmental cue with performance of an intended beha...

BACKGROUND Many patients with severe traumatic injuries are admitted to intensive care units (ICU). These patients usually require prolonged mechanical ventilation. These interventions require oral intubation and leave the mouth open which consequently impairs the natural antimicrobial activity in the mouth and airways. These patients are also prone to ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Evi...

OBJECTIVE User-friendly scores to assess knowledge of guidelines for prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) are scarce and have mainly evaluated nurses, but not students or physicians. Gaps between knowledge and actual clinical practice have not been sufficiently analyzed. We assessed knowledge of and adherence to guidelines for prevention of VAP among physicians, nurses, and stude...

In the present study Non experimental descriptive survey approach with typical descriptive design was to assess the level of stress among the nurses working in intensive care units in selected hospitals of Navimumbai with a view to develop an health educational pamphlet on stress management. Simple random sampling technique was used for the selection of 50 ICU staff nurses. The researcher modif...

A qualitative study aimed at describing the situations experienced and the ethical dilemmas of nurses in the process of referring and receiving hospitalized patients by court order who require admission to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). A partially structured interview was conducted with 10 nurses who worked in the ICU and 10 who worked in the Emergency Room (ER) in public and private hospitals...

Purpose : This study aimed to identify the factors influencing physical restraint-related practice among nurses working in intensive care unit (ICU).Methods The participants consisted of 169 ICU three general hospitals B and U cities. Data were collected from December 2021 January 2022 through a structured selfadministered questionnaire. Demographic characteristics, practice, Person-centered Cr...