Intensive care medicine

to obtain the literature in this review. The literature review will present the history of patient transport, with a focus on the adverse effects suffered by patients. It will then present the need for specialty trained staff to undertake critical care transportation. Finally it will present how the role of nursing can be expanded in order to develop nurse-led IHT services to meet the needs of patients without compromising patient safety. 2.2 Search Strategy In order to identify relevant…

How Do Neonatal Nurses affect Today's Society? How can you prevent your future newborn baby from spending their first couple of months in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit? The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit also known as the “NICU”, is an intensive-care unit for the Premature and ill babies. Babies that are referred to the NICU, is either born premature,had problems during their delivery, or show signs of health issues. Babies who need to go to the unit are often admitted within the first 24 hours…

Master of Science in Nursing in Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AG-ACNP). Although graduation is in sight, I am continuing to learn both in the classroom and during my clinical experience at Massachusetts General Hospital. My current rotation is on the orthopedic trauma service caring for inpatient orthopedic patients. The orthopedic service, while traditionally surgically focused, has recently embraced a new modality of care. Recognizing the frequent sequelae associated with…

situation, and he was admitted in the intensive care unit (ICU). I was not surprised at all, for I saw this event coming. Mr. G. was one of my first patients at the infirmary, he had a spinal decompression surgery procedure and he was post-op day four when I had my first interaction with him. I was assigned by my preceptor nurse to provide total nursing care for him. He was pleasant and cooperative with our goals in every interaction we had. I provided wound care and dressing changes for him.…

Bloodstream Infections in the Acute Care Setting by the Use of Multimodal Disinfectant Protocols. Collaboration was initiated with the assistance of the Hospital Chairperson of the Practice Council to initiate change in practice. Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLASBI) can result in financial burden and/or morbidity in the acute care setting. The financial burden associated with treating Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLASBI) in the acute care setting of one…

Progressive Mobility in the ICU and Patient Outcomes The traditional standard of care for critically ill patients has long included the premise that patients need to rest and remain immobile (Schweikert et al., 2011). In contrast to this notion, evidence-based practice has shown that when healthcare workers utilize early and progressive mobility of these patients, patient outcomes improve. The length of hospital stay, development of ICU acquired weakness, inflammation biomarkers, and other…

The intensive care unit (ICU) is regarded as an extremely stressful work environment for nurses. Extensive work-related stress has been associated with psychological disturbances that influence the mental health status of ICU nurses. Work-related stress within the intensive care unit has been found to be correlated with anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and burnout out syndrome (BOS) in ICU nurses. Anxiety and depressive symptoms in the workplace may result in…

society today nearly 100,000 babies end up in the NICU each year from being born early. Those numbers are pretty high for a year in the US that brings on the topic of the type of nurse in the NICU they are called neonatal nurses, they watch and take care of the newborns that are born before the full term of the mothers pregnancy. The nurses in the NICU have an incredibly important job and have to be a extremely patient person because their stress being shown can cause the parents or family to…

differently regardless of the age. For a newborn(neonates) who is born before 48 weeks, they are exposed to greater pain sensitivity and intensity due to inability to control the pain process (Hatfield, 2014). A preterm who is placed into the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are at severe risk for pain because they are commonly predisposed to multiple procedures and treatments due to a severity of complications (Perry, Hockenberry, Lowdermilk and Wilson, 2013, p.710-711). In short, a preterm…

March 28, 2014 was a day I’d never forget, It was a day filled with a whirlwind of emotions, which was to be expected with a new life being born. That life just so happened to be my first ever nephew, Anthony Nathaniel Harris. The birth of Anthony meant I had some growing up to do in order to set a good example for his as his aunt. Little did I know how much he would really change me. Nobody could 've predicted the craziness of his birth, nor the love he would receive afterward. His birth was…