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Intubation-associated pneumonia: An integrative review
This article aims to characterise intubation-associated pneumonia regarding its diagnosis, causes, risk factors, consequences and incidence. (Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing)
Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing - August 28, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Ana Sabrina Sousa, C ândida Ferrito, José Artur Paiva Tags: Review Source Type: research

Challenges and factors likely to promote coping as anticipated by nurses preparing for a merger of intensive and intermediate care units
This article introduces a central hospital in Finland, which has sought to prepare for change by applying an anticipatory model and by arranging collaborative workshops for staff. In 2018, the hospital will open a new intensive and intermediate care unit, created with help of evidence-based design. The new unit will combine three existing units, currently responsible for cardiac observation and evaluation, intensive care and surgical observation. (Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing)
Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing - August 28, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Mari Salminen-Tuomaala, Liisa Ala-Hynnil ä, Kati Hämäläinen, Heikki Ruohomäki Tags: Clinical research article Source Type: research

The early diagnosis and management of mixed delirium in a patient placed on ECMO and with difficult sedation: A case report
This article describes the case and progress of a patient placed on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation with difficult sedation criteria and an early diagnosis of mixed delirium. During the case report, we reflect on the pharmacological and non-pharmacological strategies employed to cope with delirium paying special attention to the non-use of physical restraint measures in order to preserve vital support devices (endotracheal tube or Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation cannula). (Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing)
Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing - August 28, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Mar ía Acevedo-Nuevo, Maria Teresa González-Gil, Miguel Ángel Romera-Ortega, Ignacio Latorre-Marco, Maria Dolores Rodríguez-Huerta Tags: Case report Source Type: research

Estimation of critically ill patients ’ complaints by the nurse, the physician and the patient’s family: A prospective comparative study
To evaluate the ability of the families of critically ill patients and of the intensive care team caring for the patient to communicate and accurately identify patients ’ complaints. (Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing)
Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing - August 28, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Sylvain Langlume, Guylaine Labro, Marc Puyraveau, Gilles Capellier, Ga ël Piton Source Type: research

The clinical surveillance process as carried out by expert nurses in a critical care context: A theoretical explanation
Nursing Science presents surveillance as an indispensable component of patient safety. Although the literature defines surveillance fully, its implementation is not well understood. (Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing)
Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing - August 28, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Daniel Milhomme, Johanne Gagnon, Kathleen Lechasseur Tags: Original article Source Type: research

Family-centred care in Intensive Care: Moving the evidence forward —A call for papers
When working in intensive care, it does not take long to realise that intensive care nursing is not just about operating technology and managing medical treatments. Nor is it solely about providing physical and psychological support for the critically ill patient. Intensive and critical care nursing is also caring for and caring about, families. Whether you are passionate about it or are challenged by it, caring for families in critical care is an important and at times, undervalued part of the intensive and critical care nurse ’s role. (Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing)
Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing - August 5, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Jos M. Latour, Maureen Coombs Tags: Editorial Source Type: research

Family-centred care in ICU: Moving the evidence forward —A call for papers
When working in intensive care, it does not take long to realise that intensive care nursing is not just about operating technology and managing medical treatments. Nor is it solely about providing physical and psychological support for the critically ill patient. Intensive and critical care nursing is also caring for, and caring about, families. Whether you are passionate about it, or are challenged by it, caring for families in critical care is an important and, at times, undervalued part of the intensive and critical care nurse ’s role. (Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing)
Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing - August 5, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Jos M. Latour, Maureen Coombs Tags: Editorial Source Type: research

Tiered protocol implementation improves treatment of hypoglycaemia in a neurosciences critical care and surgical intensive care unit
Although studies demonstrate techniques to limit hypoglycaemia in critically ill patients, there are limited data supporting methods to improve management of existing hypoglycaemia. (Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing)
Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing - August 4, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Megan A. Van Berkel, Jennifer MacDermott, Kathleen M. Dungan, Charles H. Cook, Claire V. Murphy Tags: Original article Source Type: research

Critical care nursing interventions and the time required for their completion in Intensive Care Units: A Delphi study
To determine which interventions within the Nursing Interventions Classification are most often applied in intensive care units and to validate the time required for each. (Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing)
Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing - August 3, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Xavier Palomar-Aumatell, Mireia Subirana-Casacuberta, Raimon Mila-Villarroel Tags: Original article Source Type: research

Key factors for hand hygiene promotion in intensive care units
Hand hygiene remains a cornerstone in the fight against healthcare-associated infections and multidrug resistance (Blot, 2008). Hand hygiene behaviour is deep-rooted and difficult to change. According to a recently published Intensive& Critical Care Nursing article by Battistella et al. (2017), professional hand hygiene behaviour in intensive care settings is influenced by habits of social handwashing in everyday life. Therefore, they plead for the creation of specific professional hand hygiene habits (washing hands should become ‘a routine inside a habit’). (Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing)
Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing - July 28, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: David De Wandel Tags: Editorial Source Type: research

Identifying barriers to early mobilisation among mechanically ventilated patients in a trauma intensive care unit
Mechanically ventilated patients can be at risk for functional decline (Cameron et al., 2015). Early mobilisation of mechanically ventilated patients can improve outcomes after critical illness to prevent this decline. Although registered nurses understand the importance of early mobilisation there are nurses who are unwilling to mobilise patients. (Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing)
Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing - July 22, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Kari Johnson, Jamie Petti, Amy Olson, Tina Custer Tags: Research article Source Type: research

Psychological recovery after intensive care: Outcomes of a long-term quasi-experimental study of structured nurse-led follow-up
To compare psychological recovery of patients receiving structured nurse-led follow-up and patients receiving usual care after intensive care discharge. (Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing)
Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing - July 21, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Rannveig J. J ónasdóttir, Helga Jónsdóttir, Berglind Gudmundsdottir, Gisli H. Sigurdsson Tags: Original article Source Type: research

Educational interventions and promotion of changes in the practices of prevention and monitoring of delirium in critical patient
It was with great interest that we read the study by Johnson et al. (2016), published in the Intensive and Critical Care Nursing Journal. Delirium has been widely explored in the last couple of decades for being a common neuro-behavioral disorder in critically ill patients and proven to be associated with adverse clinical outcomes such as increase of morbidity, mortality, ICU and hospitalisation time and neuro-cognitive impairment after discharge from the critical unit (Barr et al., 2013; Witlox et al., 2010). (Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing)
Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing - July 4, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: T ássia Nery Faustino, Larissa Chaves Pedreira, Rosana Freitas Azevedo Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research

Thank you letters from patients in an intensive care unit: From the expression of gratitude to an applied ethic of care
Patients ’ perception of an intensive care unit stay can lead to a better understanding of the expectations and needs of patients hospitalised in intensive care so that care for critically ill patients can be adapted and improved. Thank you letters are sources of original information which come directly an d spontaneously from patients. (Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing)
Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing - June 29, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Alexandre Herbland, Michel Goldberg, Nathalie Garric, Olivier Lesieur Source Type: research