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Critical Care Nursing (critical + care_nursing)
Selected AbstractsCritical care nursing: towards 2015NURSING IN CRITICAL CARE, Issue 6 2008Dominique M. Vandijck [source] Establishing an action research group to explore family-focused nursing in the intensive care unitINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING PRACTICE, Issue 1 2007Fiona Coyer RN ENB100 PGCEA PhD This paper presents the first phase of a four-phase collaborative action research study which aimed to facilitate family-focused nursing in the intensive care environment. The purpose of phase one was to determine intensive care nurses' perceptions of family-focused critical care nursing and the appropriateness of family-focused nursing in the intensive care unit. A collaborative action research group was established with six registered nurses working in the intensive care unit of a metropolitan tertiary referral hospital. Data were collected through group discussions and analysed using open coding. Findings revealed two categories related to perceptions of family-focused intensive care nursing: partnership in care and maintaining a balance. The group unanimously agreed that family-focused nursing was appropriate in the intensive care environment. The three subsequent action research phases of this study are reported elsewhere. [source] Critical care nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists interface patterns with computer-based decision support systemsJOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NURSE PRACTITIONERS, Issue 11 2007APRN (Assistant Professor of Health, Community Systems, Coordinator of the Nursing Education Graduate Program), PhD(c), Scott Weber EdD Abstract Purpose: The purposes of this review are to examine the types of clinical decision support systems in use and to identify patterns of how critical care advanced practice nurses (APNs) have integrated these systems into their nursing care patient management practices. The decision-making process itself is analyzed with a focus on how automated systems attempt to capture and reflect human decisional processes in critical care nursing, including how systems actually organize and process information to create outcome estimations based on patient clinical indicators and prognosis logarithms. Characteristics of APN clinicians and implications of these characteristics on decision system use, based on the body of decision system user research, are introduced. Data sources: A review of the Medline, Ovid, CINAHL, and PubMed literature databases was conducted using "clinical decision support systems,""computerized clinical decision making," and "APNs"; an examination of components of several major clinical decision systems was also undertaken. Conclusions: Use patterns among APNs and other clinicians appear to vary; there is a need for original research to examine how APNs actually use these systems in their practices in critical care settings. Because APNs are increasingly responsible for admission to, and transfer from, critical care settings, more understanding is needed on how they interact with this technology and how they see automated decision systems impacting their practices. Implications for practice: APNs who practice in critical care settings vary significantly in how they use the clinical decision systems that are in operation in their practice settings. These APNs must have an understanding of their use patterns with these systems and should critically assess whether their patient care decision making is affected by the technology. [source] 2020 , Clinical Academic Careers: implications for critical care nursingNURSING IN CRITICAL CARE, Issue 1 2009Professor Margaret C Smith [source] The impact of the impact factor on publication in critical care nursingNURSING IN CRITICAL CARE, Issue 4 2008Ingrid Egerod RN, PhD Associate Professor No abstract is available for this article. [source] Managing today's reality of delivering critical care nursingNURSING IN CRITICAL CARE, Issue 5 2006Maureen Coombs MBE [source] Developing best practice in critical care nursing: knowledge, evidence and practiceNURSING IN CRITICAL CARE, Issue 3 2003Paul Fulbrook Summary ,Because the current drive towards evidence-based critical care nursing practice is based firmly within the positivist paradigm, experimentally derived research tends to be regarded as ,high level' evidence, whereas other forms of evidence, for example qualitative research or personal knowing, carry less weight ,This poses something of a problem for nursing, as the type of knowledge nurses use most in their practice is often at the so-called ,soft' end of science. Thus, the ,Catch 22' situation is that the evidence base for nursing practice is considered to be weak ,Furthermore, it is argued in this paper that there are several forms of nursing knowledge, which critical care nurses employ, that are difficult to articulate ,The way forward requires a pragmatic approach to evidence, in which all forms of knowledge are considered equal in abstract but are assigned value according to the context of a particular situation ,It is proposed that this can be achieved by adopting an approach to nursing in which practice development is the driving force for change [source] | ||||||||||