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Adomat, ReneeÌ. "Measuring nursing workload in intensive care." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.397781.

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Dunbar, Pervell Velethia. "Nursing Care of Terminal patients in Intensive Care Units." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1379.

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Nursing Care for Terminal Patients in Intensive Care Units by Pervell Dunbar Project Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Nursing Practice Walden University August 2015 Although the goal of the ICU has always been to save lives, ICU now additionally provides end-of life (EOL) care. The objective of this project was to provide ICU nurses with a comprehensive awareness of physical, emotional, and spiritual EOL care issues of patients and their families in order to be better equipped to handle EOL care. The framework used was Jean Watson's Caring model

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Cronqvist, Agneta. "The moral enterprise in intensive care nursing." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm, 2004. http://diss.kib.ki.se/2004/91-7349-942-0/.

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Moon, Mikyung. "Relationship of nursing diagnoses, nursing outcomes, and nursing interventions for patient care in intensive care units." Diss., University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/3356.

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The purpose of the study was to identify NANDA - I diagnoses, NOC outcomes, and NIC interventions used in nursing care plans for ICU patient care and determine the factors which influenced the change of the NOC outcome scores. This study was a retrospective and descriptive study using clinical data extracted from the electronic patient records of a large acute care hospital in the Midwest. Frequency analysis, one-way ANOVA analysis, and multinomial logistic regression analysis were used to analyze the data. A total of 578 ICU patient records between March 25, 2010 and May 31, 2010 were used fo

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郭子琪 and Chi-ki Priscilla Kwok. "Nurse-controlled intensive insulin infusion in adult intensive care unit." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B40720858.

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Kwok, Chi-ki Priscilla. "Nurse-controlled intensive insulin infusion in adult intensive care unit." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B40720858.

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Davis, Clare. "Optimising nursing shift handover in Paediatric Intensive Care." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/2943.

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Ferreira, JosÃ Hernevides Pontes. "Team perception of nursing care humanized in intensive care unit neonatal." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2016. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=16481.

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CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior<br>Hospitalization of the newborn is necessary when health conditions require immediate assistance for their recovery. Humanized actions in the neonatal unit have been developed in order to make it less painful separation parent-child when it needs technological support and team of trained professionals. It was aimed to analyze the perception and knowledge of the nursing team on the promotion of humanized care for newborn in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit . It is a qualitative study conducted in a public hospital, large, tertiary leve

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Wolak, Eric S. "Perceptions of an intensive care unit mentorship program." Greensboro, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2007. http://libres.uncg.edu/edocs/etd/1492Wolak/umi-uncg-1492.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S.N.)--University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2007.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Mar. 3, 2008). Directed by Susan Letvak; submitted to the School of Nursing. Includes bibliographical references (p. 53-58).

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Goldsborough, Jennifer. "Palliative Care Integration in the Intensive Care Unit." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4787.

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Palliative health care is offered to any patient experiencing a life limiting or life changing illness. The palliative approach includes goals of care, expert symptom management, and advance care planning in order to reduce patient suffering. Complex care can be provided by palliative care specialists while primary palliative care can be given by educated staff nurses. However, according to the literature, intensive care unit (ICU) nurses have demonstrated a lack of knowledge in the provision of primary care as well as experiencing moral distress from that lack of knowledge. In this doctor of

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Gill, Fenella. "Paediatric intensive care nursing behaviours to reduce parental stress." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2001. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1028.

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A child's admission to a paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) is stressful for the family. Parental presence and involvement with their child in hospital have been recognised as important in reducing their stress. Several studies have identified parental needs in the PICU. Nurses have reported that they felt inadequately prepared to meet those needs. Although principles to guide nursing strategies have been identified, contextual behaviours of PICU nurses to reduce parental stress have not A qualitative study, using an ethnographic approach, was designed to describe contextual behaviours of e

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Wallace, Amanda. "Effects of Telemedicine in the Intensive Care Unit on Quality of Care." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1612.

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The growing concern over the nursing shortage has affected the intensive care unit (ICU) and how these units provide quality care, adhere to best practices, and maintain high satisfaction scores. Implementing telemedicine technology allows the ICU to have additional staff available, via cameras at an offsite location, to assist with patient care. The purpose of this project was to evaluate the potential benefits of telemedicine application used within an ICU on quality of care, adherence to best practices, and satisfaction, as evidenced by data from the hospital's telemedicine dashboard. The g

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Njenje, Charles Chukwuemeka. "Improving Hand Hygiene in an Intensive Care Unit." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5914.

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Health-care-associated infections (HCAIs) affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide, causing morbidity and mortality among hospitalized patients. About 2 million patients suffer from HCAIs in the United States, and it is estimated that 99,000 of them die each year. Studies have indicated that transmission of health-care-associated microorganisms occurs through contaminated hands of health care workers. Hand hygiene (HH) is the single most effective way to prevent health-care-associated infections, yet health care workers' hand hygiene compliance remains low. One factor responsible for po

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Singleton, Alsy R. "Patient satisfaction with nursing care : a comparison analysis of critical care and medical units." Virtual Press, 1997. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1061875.

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Patient satisfaction is an outcome of care that represents the patient's judgment on the quality of care. An important aspect of quality affecting patient's judgment can be attributed to patients' expectations and experiences regarding nursing care according to type of unit. The purpose of this study was to examine differences between patients' perceptions of satisfaction with nursing care in critical care units and medical units in one Midwestern hospital.The conceptual framework was "A Framework of Expectation" developed by Oberst in 1984, which asserted that patients have expectations of ho

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Sun, Kwok Wai. "A nursing workload scheduler in an intensive care unit /." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=68055.

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This thesis presents the design and implementation of an automated task scheduler developed for the Patient Data Management System (PDMS) of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of the Montreal Children's Hospital. The principal objective of the Nursing Workload Scheduler (NWS) is to automatically generate schedules for the condition of multiple patients and multiple nurses.<br>This thesis begins with a literature review of computerized medical information systems. It follows with a description of the design and the implementation of the NWS. Evaluation and performance results are then presented

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Yon, Lauren T. "Integrating mobility into the plan of care in the intensive care unit." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1341.

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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.<br>Bachelors<br>Nursing<br>Nursing

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Smith, Sarah, and Sarah Smith. "Compassion Fatigue Among Rural Intensive Care Nurses." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626635.

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Purpose: The purpose of this project was to conduct an educational workshop among ICU nurses working in rural areas, to reduce risk of compassion fatigue. Background: Compassion fatigue is a job-related hazard unique to professionals in caring professions such as nursing. Rural ICU nurses represent a population that may encounter unique triggers for the risk of compassion fatigue due to professional isolation, less resources and more risk of knowing the patient as a community member. A review of literature reveals limited research related to compassion fatigue development in rural ICU nurses

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Kean, Susanne. "The emergence of negotiated family care in intensive care : a grounded theory approach." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/2838.

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This thesis describes a qualitative enquiry into the experiences of families visiting an adult intensive care unit (ICU) during a critical illness of a family member and nurses’ perceptions of families in this environment. A Grounded Theory approach was taken. Nine families (12 adults, 12 young people) with a family member in intensive care and twenty intensive care nurses in five focus groups contributed their experiences to the study through group interviews. Families described the admission of a family member as a traumatic event. The core experiences of families which emerged in the study

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Endacott, Ruth. "Children in intensive care : nurses perceptions of need." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244403.

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This study investigates the manner in which intensive care nurses perceive, and take action to meet, the needs of the critically ill child, with the aim of answering three research questions: 1. What care is provided for the critically ill child in the intensive care unit? 2. How do nurses identify and act on the needs of the critically ill child? 3. What dimensionso f knowing underpint he way in which nursesp erceivea nd act on the needs of the critically ill child? A modified Delphi technique was used to provide an expert opinion on the needs of the critically ill child. A case study approac

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Rashotte, Judith Mary. "Pediatric intensive care nurses and their grief experiences." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/10425.

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While the phenomenon of grief has received considerable attention and has been researched at length, there is a paucity of literature that has focused on health care professionals' experience of grief. The purpose of this study was to investigate the grief experience of pediatric intensive care nurses when their patients die. A phenomenological method was used in this study in order to obtain rich descriptions of nurses' experience of grief within their workplace. The purposive sample consisted of six registered nurses employed in an intensive care unit in a university-teaching pediatric hospi

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Taipale, Priscilla Gail. "Nursing care and post-operative delirium in the cardiac surgery intensive care unit." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29278.

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Post-operative delirium is a debilitating and costly adverse event that has detrimental effects on patients’ recovery and complicates nursing care. Its numerous risk factors make the disorder seem unavoidable and unpreventable. Although pre-operative and intra-operative risk factors for delirium may not be controllable, the post-operative risk factors directly related to nursing practice are directly controllable. Practices to control pain through analgesia and sedation administration given at nurses’ prerogative may be associated with the onset of delirium in the immediate post-operative per

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Williams, Caroline M. A. "Nurse-patient interaction in an intensive care setting." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.273868.

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Bianchi, Elisa A. "The relationship between locus of control and anxiety among intensive care nurses /." Staten Island, N.Y. : [s.n.], 1990. http://library.wagner.edu/theses/nursing/1990/thesis_nur_1990_bianc_relat.pdf.

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Davies, Kylie. "Determining standard criteria for endotracheal suctioning in the paediatric intensive care patient an exploratory study /." Connect to thesis, 2009. http://adt.ecu.edu.au/adt-public/adt-ECU2009.0001.html.

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Badger, James Mark. "Nurses' experiences of moving from cure-oriented to comfort-oriented care in the medical intensive care unit setting /." View online ; access limited to URI, 2003. http://0-wwwlib.umi.com.helin.uri.edu/dissertations/dlnow/3115620.

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Patton, Lauren Ashley. "Education and Standardized Discussion Guides to EnhanceNurses' Spiritual Care Practices in the Medical Intensive Care Unit." Case Western Reserve University Doctor of Nursing Practice / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=casednp1519836081431734.

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Binnekade, Johannes Maria. "Issues of daily ICU nursing care safety, nutrition and sedation /." [S.l. : Amsterdam : s.n.] ; Universiteit van Amsterdam [Host], 2005. http://dare.uva.nl/document/79050.

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Borozny, Margaret. "The experiences of intensive care unit nurses providing care to the brain dead patient." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28722.

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This study describes the meaning intensive care unit nurses attach to their care of the brain dead patient. A phenomenological methodology was used because of its intent to understand experience as it is lived. Because these patients constitute a unique class of dead patients which require intensive nursing care and because of the scarcity of information available on the subjective experience of nurses who provide this care, the study was considered to be essential to fillful a gap in our knowledge. Data were collected through 28 interviews with 11 Caucasian female participants who work in th

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Stadd, Karen. "Initiating Kangaroo Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5267.

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Kangaroo care (KC) is a cost-efficient method to increase infant-parent bonding and neonatal health outcomes worldwide. Despite evidence supporting KC in critically ill infants, nursing perceptions regarding patient safety and interrupted work flow continued to impede practice in the local high-tech neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Their current policy failed to address the 2-person transfer method recommended for safe practice. In addition, both staff and parents lacked training and education regarding the benefits and feasibility of KC. This doctoral project aimed to decrease practice ba

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Mosavian, Pour Mir Kaber. "Learning and quality improvement : nursing in the pediatric intensive care unit." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/63141.

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Maintaining a high quality of care in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) is a constant challenge. Continual 24/7 staffing, ongoing staff turnover, and the constant introduction of new equipment and procedures in a highly technologically-dependent unit requires continuous learning to deliver and improve the quality of children’s care. While all staff consider continuous learning important to maintaining and improving care, learning as quality improvement is made most explicit when new nursing staff are hired and incorporated into the PICU. In this dissertation, I investigated the process

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Lovejoy-Bluem, Arlene. "Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Discharge Transitioning| Nursing Practices, Perspectives, and Perceptions." Thesis, Brandman University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3665293.

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<p> The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) delineated four criteria for management of perinatal care and discharge (DC) of high-risk neonates: 1) physiological stability, 2) tracking and surveillance of growth and development for each infant, 3) active parental involvement with the infant's care, and 4) follow-up care arranged with experienced primary care provider. Registered Nurses in California Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) were surveyed about NICU DC transitioning programs to 1) identify current common standards of care used in DC transitioning and 2) define the nature and extent

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Jacob, Yanick. "Nursing Knowledge on Pressure Injury Prevention in the Intensive Care Unit." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7810.

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Over 60,000 hospital patients die each year from complications associated with hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPIs). Pressure-injury rates have increased by 2% within the past decade as life expectancy has also increased due to high cost in Medicare. Evidence shows that the incidence of pressure injuries (PIs) in healthcare facilities is increasing, with high rates of occurrence in intensive care units (ICUs). At the clinical site for which this project was developed, multiple in-services had been provided to staff regarding PIs, but uncertainty persisted about how knowledgeable the nur

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Coyer, Fiona Maree. "The Development of Family-Focused Intensive Care Nursing Through Action Research." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2004. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/15932/1/Fiona_Coyer_Thesis.pdf.

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Introduction: The purpose of this study was to facilitate an improved understanding by intensive care nurses about their care of family members of critically ill patients. The study aimed to challenge intensive care nurses to reconceptulaise family nursing within the context of the intensive care unit (ICU). Background to the study: Critical illness is not an event that occurs in isolation for the patient and staff. It affects the patient's family in a unique way. A plethora of literature exists identifying the needs of family members in the ICU. However, there are considerabl

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Coyer, Fiona Maree. "The Development of Family-Focused Intensive Care Nursing Through Action Research." Queensland University of Technology, 2004. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15932/.

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Introduction: The purpose of this study was to facilitate an improved understanding by intensive care nurses about their care of family members of critically ill patients. The study aimed to challenge intensive care nurses to reconceptulaise family nursing within the context of the intensive care unit (ICU). Background to the study: Critical illness is not an event that occurs in isolation for the patient and staff. It affects the patient's family in a unique way. A plethora of literature exists identifying the needs of family members in the ICU. However, there are considerably fewer stud

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Romesberg, Tricia L. "Midline Catheter Use in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit." UNF Digital Commons, 2014. http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/544.

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Ongoing evaluation of current practice and incorporation of evidence based research into guidelines and protocols is a requirement for the provision of high quality, cost efficient care. Despite some literature describing observational data, midline catheters (MCs) are not an appropriate vascular access device for Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) patients due to insufficient high level evidence demonstrating safety and efficacy. In addition, national guidelines for MC use in neonatal and infant patients lacks sufficient information for safe and effective use of MCs. The results of this small

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Sato, Michelle N. "Nurse Experiences of Grief and Coping in the Intensive Care Unit." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/578617.

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Background: Intensive care unit (ICU) nurses may experience cumulative loss as they are routinely exposed to traumatic situations, patient suffering, and death. They must also deal with personal grief and grief of patients' family in a time of uncertain crisis. Currently, there is minimal literature that acknowledges grieving and coping in the ICU. The grief and coping experiences of medical intensive care unit (MICU) nurses is little understood. Purpose: Explore grief and coping amongst registered nurses working in the MICU at a major metropolitan hospital in Hawaii. Method: A qualitative des

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Tingling, Louis Gilbert. "Root Cause of Medication Errors In a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7201.

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Five to 27% of all pediatric medication orders lead to errors and play a significant role in the morbidity and mortality of the pediatric patients admitted to hospitals. The practice problem explored the high rate of medication errors in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) of the project site, where the population is particularly vulnerable due to their acute illnesses. The purpose of this project was to analyze the root causes of all cases of medication error in this hospital's PICU during the last 2 years. The literature review was used to categorize secondary data extracted from the ho

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Van, der Heever Mariana. "An ideal leadership style for unit managers in intensive care units of private health care institutions." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4058.

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Thesis (MCur (Nursing Science))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The work environment in critical care units in South Africa is hampered by a profound shortage of nurses, heavy workloads, conflict, high levels of stress, lack of motivation and dissatisfaction among the staff. The task of managing a C.C.U. has therefore become a challenge. It is important that unit managers apply a leadership style that matches these challenges. The aim of this study was to investigate the ideal style of leadership. The objectives set for the study were to identify the ideal leadership s

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Palmer, Lydia Helmick. "Prevention of Skin Breakdown in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit." Thesis, University of South Carolina, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3561837.

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<p> Skin breakdown occurs when one or more layers of the skin have been disrupted (McLane et al., 2004; National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel, 2007). While some literature uses the terms skin breakdown and pressure ulcer interchangeably, these are actually two distinct conditions and pressure ulcers are encompassed in the definition of skin breakdown (Kuller, 2001; Lund, 1999; Suddaby et al., 2006). The consequences of skin breakdown in the pediatric population can include increased cost of treatment, infection, increased morbidity and mortality as well as psychological consequences from re

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Vandergoot, Ann. "From ward nurse to proficient critical care nurse a narrative inquiry study : a dissertation [thesis] presented in partial fulfillment of the degree of Master of Health Science, 2005." Full thesis. Abstract, 2005.

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Thesis (MHSc--Health Science) -- Auckland University of Technology, 2005.<br>Appendices not included in e-thesis. Also held in print (65 leaves, 30 cm.) in Akoranga Theses Collection. (T 610.730690993 VAN)

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Archer, Susan. "Caring for Patients with Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3744.

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Patients in hospital intensive care units are at increased risk to develop delirium, a condition which is characterized by a disturbance of consciousness and a change in cognition. Critical care nurses must have the knowledge to assess, recognize, and manage delirium. The purpose of this project was to develop an evidence-based policy for the assessment of delirium and a comprehensive nursing education plan which included an analysis and synthesis of the literature, a curriculum plan, and a pretest/posttest. The Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice Model framed the project, which used a multi

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Ferrel, Cynthia Lynn. "The experience of critical care nurses in initiating hospice care." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2008. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1453534.

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Alalyani, Mesheil M. "Factors influencing the quality of nursing care in an intensive care unit in Saudi Arabia." Thesis, Curtin University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2632.

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Quality care in intensive care units is expected by patients and is mandatory for nurses and other health professionals to provide. In Saudi Arabia, the demand for intensive care units (ICUs) is growing rapidly, partly due to the high levels of road trauma and a population increase. In response to these issues, the government has increased the number of ICU beds in some public tertiary regional hospitals. A corresponding increase in patients and a shortage of specialized nurses has major implications for nurses’ ability to provide quality care. In the Western world there is comprehensive liter

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Ashcraft, Alyce Louise Smithson. "The clinical reasoning of expert acute care registered nurses in pre-cardiopulmonary arrest events." Thesis, Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3008269.

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Vanderspank, Brandi. "The Social Construction of Intensive Care Nursing, 1960-2002: Canadian Historical Perspectives." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/30922.

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Intensive care units (ICUs) emerged across Canada during the early 1960s, significantly contributing to the image of Western hospitals as places of scientific advancement that predominated over much of the twentieth century. ICUs rapidly became both a resource intensive and expensive type of care as the number and size of units increased to accommodate diverse patient populations and treatment options. Nurses enabled the formation and growth of ICUs through their constant presence and skilled care. There has been limited research, however, regarding the historical development of Canadian ICU

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Oraka, Ebele. "Early Detection of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome by Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Nurses." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5580.

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Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is a public health concern that is increasing in the United States due to the use of illicit drugs by pregnant women, which exposes the fetus to these substances. NAS results in increased infant morbidity and prolonged stay in the hospital, which can lead to increased cost of care. The inability of the nurses to care for at-risk infants can lead to inconsistent NAS scores, which can affect the infant's care treatment. The project examined the effectiveness of educating the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) nurses on the correct use of the modified Finnegan

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Farr, Shirley Marie. "A developmental care program in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2741.

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Chard, Jennifer Clarissa 1963. "Professional nursing practice in medical-surgical and intensive care units: Baseline comparisons." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278593.

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This study had three purposes: (1) to examine the differences and similarities between intensive care and medical-surgical RNs' self-reports of professional nursing practice and job satisfaction. (2 & 3) to explore the influence of professional nursing practice on nurse satisfaction in intensive care RNs and medical-surgical RNs, respectively. A two-group, cross-sectional descriptive design with a sample of 340 RNs was utilized to perform a secondary analysis of baseline data from the Differentiated Group Professional Practice project. Self-reports of RNs evidenced significantly higher levels

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Coombs, Maureen A. "Medicine, nursing and policy development in intensive care : an ethnography to explore the contemporary nursing role." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323909.

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Barlow, Hilary Joan. "An evaluation of neonatal nursing care in selected hospitals in the Western Cape." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/16253.

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Thesis (MCUR)--University of Stellenbosch, 2003.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South Africa has a proud history of a high standard of health care delivery in State funded hospitals. This implies that high standards of education and care in both medical and nursing training have been achieved. The care of sick and premature newborn infants by nurses is a speciality that has evolved worldwide over the last forty years as a result of various technological developments. In order to ensure the standard of care delivered, protocols of care should be available for nurses to refer to and to measure their

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