Compassion Satisfaction and Compassion Fatigue Among Critical Care Nurses.

abstract：:Provision of nutritional support to critically ill patients can be challenging. Critical care nurses must be aware of which patients require specific nutritional support, when to initiate nutritional support, and by which route to provide nutritional support. Consultation with a dietitian or nutritional support servic...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Trujillo EB,Robinson MK,Jacobs DO

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the potential severity of the associated complications, nurses have an essential role in the care of patients with HAT. Bedside nurses have the opportunity to report information that may indicate a change in a patient's condition after administration of heparin. This information could lead to diagnosis of h...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Jerdee AL

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) rippled across the world from Wuhan, China, to the shores of the United States within a few months. Hospitals and intensive care units were suddenly faced with a "tsunami" warning requiring instantaneous implementation and escalation of disaster plans. EVI...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Bader MK,Braun A,Fox C,Dwinell L,Cord J,Andersen M,Noakes B,Ponticiello D

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most common measurements of pulmonary hypertension include systolic and mean pulmonary artery pressures, PVR, and transpulmonary gradient. Pulmonary artery pressures greater than 50 mm Hg, PVR greater than 6 Woods units, and transpulmonary gradient greater than 15 mm Hg that are unresponsive to optimal vasodilator...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Coe PF

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Music therapy is an effective intervention for critically ill patients for such purposes as anxiety reduction and stress management. The therapy is readily accepted by patients and is an intervention patients thoroughly enjoy. The MAIT is one resource that nurses caring for critically ill patients can use to implement...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Chlan L,Tracy MF

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hospital-acquired pressure ulcers are serious clinical complications that can lead to increased length of stay, pain, infection, and, potentially, death. The surgical progressive care unit at Sharp Grossmont Hospital, San Diego, California, developed the multidisciplinary Healthy Skin Project to decrease the...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Armour-Burton T,Fields W,Outlaw L,Deleon E

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical practice must be based on evidence. When evidence suggests that a certain practice may be ineffective or even harmful, that practice should be discontinued. The Choosing Wisely campaign, an initiative of the ABIM (American Board of Internal Medicine) Foundation, is intended to bring attention to tradition-bas...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Upvall MJ,Bourgault AM,Pigon C,Swartzman CA

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BACKGROUND Many hospitals have well-planned nursing competency assessment programs, but these are meant to measure competency in traditional bedside roles, not in tele-intensive care unit (tele-ICU) nurses practicing remotely. OBJECTIVE To determine whether current tele-ICU programs have a formal competency assessment...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Goran SF

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are many traditional beliefs about the need to restrict visitors on coronary care units (CCUs). Some hospitals, however, have modified their visiting policies. This article identifies factors related to the setting and control of visiting policies on CCUs. ...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Hopping BL,Sickbert SF,Ruth J

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hematologic assessment is part of the routine assessment of acute and critically ill patients. Nurses must be aware of the reference ranges for complete blood cell counts and common coagulation profiles. A case study is presented of an elderly patient, taking warfarin for atrial fibrillation, who falls and sustains a ...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Rauen CA

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Preparation of drug solutions used with electronic syringe infusion pumps plays a crucial role in the delivery of an accurate drug concentration. Is there a correlation between drug concentrations during syringe pump infusion and preparation protocols? METHOD:Norepinephrine, insulin, and sufentanil were prep...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Garrigue B,Dehu Y,Girault F,Figadère B,Leblanc K,Briole N,Capitani GA,Lagadec S,Laborne FX

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scientists are only beginning to fully understand the purpose of sleep and its underlying mechanisms. Lack of sleep is associated with many diseases, including infection, and with increased mortality. Lack of proper sleep is an important problem in the intensive care unit, and interventions have been designed to impro...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Ganz FD

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：TOPIC:The growing use of acute mechanical circulatory support devices to provide hemodynamic support that has accompanied the increasing prevalence of heart failure and cardiogenic shock, despite significant improvement in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction. CLINICAL RELEVANCE:The critical care nurse plays a...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Asber SR,Shanahan KP,Lussier L,Didomenico D,Davis M,Eaton J,Esposito M,Kapur NK

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Status epilepticus is a medical emergency that requires rapid diagnosis and treatment. Nonconvulsive status epilepticus is frequently underdiagnosed and therefore undertreated, which can lead to permanent neuronal damage resulting in disability or death. Despite the frequent occurrence and morbidity associated with st...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Lawson T,Yeager S

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous research-based guidelines for PA pressure monitoring are available. Despite the availability of this large body of literature related to PA pressure monitoring, critical care nurses continue to demonstrate insufficient knowledge and ability to apply information related to the collection and interpretation of ...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Bridges EJ

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Family engagement in rounds has been recommended to improve communication, but its impact on patient outcomes is unknown. At the authors' institution, nurses encouraged family presence at rounds as part of a larger project to enhance communication during rounding. In the case reported here, family engagement resulted ...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Strathdee SA,Hellyar M,Montesa C,Davidson JE

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Critical care nurses are constantly challenged to provide safe, high-quality patient care at a low cost with increasingly scarce resources while implementing the latest evidence-based practices into their own clinical practice. This article is the first in a 4-part series to provide a practical quality improvement gui...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Stausmire JM

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The patient in septic shock who develops vascular insufficiency secondary to purpura fulminans is a challenge to the healthcare team. Initial management is directed toward reversing the disease process by administering antibiotics immediately and initiating life-support measures. Emergency measures include optimizing ...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Chiafery MC,Stephany RA,Holliday KJ

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in smartphone technology now allow clinicians to use commercially produced applications when studying for nursing certification examinations. The quality of currently available CCRN review applications varies in this first generation of products. Most are limited to multiple-choice practice questions, ...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Curran C

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children admitted to the ICU with status asthmaticus require continuous nursing assessment of respiratory status and monitoring of the response to therapy. Nurses must be aware of the progression of respiratory distress and of the expected response to treatment and the side effects that can occur with each therapy. By...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Briening EP

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Immobility contributes to many adverse effects in critically ill patients. Early progressive mobility can mitigate these negative sequelae but is not widely implemented. Appreciative inquiry is a quality improvement method/change philosophy that builds on what works well in an organization. OBJECTIVES:To ex...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Fernald MM,Smyrnios NA,Vitello J

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoplastic left heart syndrome is a severe form of congenital heart disease that results in single-ventricle physiology. Although surgical palliation in infants with this syndrome is widely agreed on in practice, variation occurs in both surgical and medical management. Perinatal factors that affect preoperative mana...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Donnellan A,Justice L

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the springs and summers of 2009 to 2012, military and nongovernment organization nurses served side by side on hospital ships USNS Comfort and USNS Mercy to offer free humanitarian clinical services to developing nations in Central and South America and Southeast Asia. Translators were engaged to facilitate com...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Faulk JF,Hanly MA

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart failure is a burdensome cardiovascular condition associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality. The 3-month period after hospitalization is a vulnerable phase in which patients are at high risk for mortality and rehospitalization. To reduce risk during this period, patients with heart failure and reduced...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Albert NM,Kozinn MJ

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TEB is proving to be an exciting hemodynamic monitoring technique. It has been shown to accurately measure trends in the patient's volume and vasoactive state without the risks and discomfort of invasive monitoring. It can be applied easily and does not require specialized skill of nurses or physicians. A broad range ...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Smith MA

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nurses in a full range of settings from acute to home care are increasingly exposed to the use and maintenance of central VADs. Although the advantages of central VADs are well recognized, the incidence and potential for complications associated with these devices should not be minimized. The major complication of cat...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Brown LH,Wantroba I,Simonson G

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IABP timing challenges the nurse not only with a waveform analysis but also an understanding of complex physiologic concepts crucial to patient management. Optimizing timing through assessment of the five points of the IABP waveform permits the critical care nurse to increase the hemodynamic benefits of IABP therapy, ...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Wojner AW

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Catheter-associated urinary tract infections are preventable adverse outcomes that increase hospital morbidity, mortality, and costs. These infections are particularly prevalent in intensive care units. OBJECTIVES:To describe the success of an 18-bed neurological intensive care unit in using several nurse-i...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Richards B,Sebastian B,Sullivan H,Reyes R,D'Agostino JF,Hagerty T

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-2 is a biotherapeutic drug and a biological response modifier. This drug has not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for general use but continues to undergo clinical trials. Candidates for this therapy are patients with advanced carcinoma that has not responded to standard modalities of treatment. Ad...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Raymond BA,Haney PE,Gimesky J

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As surgery for complex congenital heart disease is becoming more advanced, an increasing number of patients are surviving into adulthood, yet many of these adult patients remain in the pediatric hospital system. Caring for adult patients is often a challenge for pediatric nurses, because the nurses have less experienc...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Anton K

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00