Intensive Care Unit diaries: A critical appraisal

The ICU-diary has been adopted in Europe, Australia and Japan (Beg et al., 2016); more recently implementation commenced in the United States (Blair et al., 2017). The first initiative, in the early 1990s, for an ICU-diary was described as a therapeutic nursing intervention to help patients remember their stay in the intensive care unit (ICU) (Egerod et al., 2011). Since then, the purpose has expanded to include filling in memory gaps, gain coherence and understanding of the critical illness and support to set up realistic goals for recovery (Akerman et al., 2010; Ewens et al., 2014).

Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing - June 4, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Eva Åkerman Tags: Editorial Source Type: research