Key result
Raising ICU nurse awareness of physical impacts may reduce physiological after-effects and improve discharge planning.
Why the study?
Patients after intensive care may experience physiological after effects potentially influenced by the care received during intensive care, necessitating increased nurse awareness.
Raising awareness among nurses about the physiological after-effects of intensive care may improve patient care and discharge planning.
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May support nurse education on ICU after-effects for discharge planning; leaves open need for prospective trials to confirm benefit.
After a stay in intensive care, patients may suffer physiological after effects, such as muscle wasting, polyneuropathies, disturbed sleep, itching and poor mobility. The care that patients receive whilst on intensive care may contribute to the severity of some of these physical problems. Raising awareness amongst critical care nurses may help reduce the severity of some of the physiological after effects. Increased awareness amongst nurses on the wards about the physical impact of intensive care may lead to a greater understanding of the needs of this group of patients and may improve discharge planning.
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Wayne P Robson (2003) studied Physiological after-effects of intensive care. Raising awareness amongst critical care nurses was evaluated. Raising awareness among critical care nurses about the physical impact of intensive care may help reduce the severity of physiological after-effects and improve discharge planning.
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