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A critical care nurse practitioner's prescribing using standing orders and authorised prescribing when performing a critical care outreach role: A clinical audit
Summary: Objective: This paper assesses the frequency of prescribing and the types of medications prescribed by a New Zealand critical care nurse practitioner (NP) whilst performing a critical care ou...
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Alison M. Pirret
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The lived experiences of adult intensive care patients who were conscious during mechanical ventilation: A phenomenological-hermeneutic study
Summary: Aim: The aim of this study was to illuminate the lived experience of patients who were conscious during mechanical ventilation in an intensive care unit (ICU). Method: Interviews with 12 pati...
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Veronika Karlsson,
Ingegerd Bergbom,
Anna Forsberg
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Nurses’ perceptions of communication training in the ICU
Summary: Objective: To describe the experience and perceptions of nurse study participants regarding a communication intervention (training and communication tools) for use with nonspeaking, criticall...
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Jill V. Radtke,
Judith A. Tate,
Mary Beth Happ
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16-25
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Exploring the influence of enforcing infection control directives on the risk of developing healthcare associated infections in the intensive care unit: A retrospective study
Summary: Background: Although strict adherence to infection control strategies is recognised as the simplest and most cost effective method to prevent the spread of healthcare associated infections (H...
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Maher M. El-Masri,
Margaret (Peggy) Oldfield
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26-31
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A pre–post evaluation of the Adler/Sheiner Programme (ASP): A nursing informational programme to support families and nurses in an intensive care unit (ICU)
Summary: Background: ICU nurses often report that timely informational and supportive resources would ease distress for clients and providers alike. Objectives: This pilot study was aimed to explore t...
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Carmen G. Loiselle,
Céline Gélinas,
Jamie Cassoff,
Johanne Boileau,
Lynne McVey
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32-40
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Nurses’ near-decision-making process of postoperative patients’ cardiosurgical weaning and extubation in an Italian environment
Summary: Background: Despite the fact that Italian nurses have only recently gained autonomy when making health-care decisions, there is little evidence available regarding the decisions actually take...
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Giulia Villa,
Duilio Manara,
Alvisa Palese
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41-49
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Book review
‘Ward-Based Critical Care: a guide for health professions’ is a work centred on the care of those adult in-patients whose condition may be deteriorating and who are still being cared for at ward level...
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Gerard McMenamin
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Research Reviews – February 2012
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Chest X-ray quiz
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