ICU Care

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In this article, the writer discusses the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and the effects of nursing care in the ICU. The writer describes studies in which researchers have determined a number of variables that may influence patient recovery. The writer describes how some authors have described the ICU environment as one where patients often enter in a state of physiological crisis; as such it is vital that nursing activities be structured in a manner to promote rather than inhibit patient recovery.

Introduction
Article 1 - "Sleep Disturbance: The Patient Care Activities Applied at the Night Shift in the Intensive Care Unit".
Article 2 - "Visiting Preferences of Patients in the Intensive Care Unit and In a Complex Care Medical Unit"
Article 3 - "Children Visiting Family and Friends on Adult Intensive Care Units: The Nurses' Perspective".
Article 4 - "The Meaning of Caring to Nurses: an Investigation into the Nature of Caring Work in an Intensive Care Unit."
Article 5 - "Technology - an Actor in the ICU: a Study in Workplace Research Tradition."
Conclusions and Recommendations

From the Paper:

"It is increasingly important that nursing staff understand any and all factors contributing to positive or negative patient outcomes within the ICU. Multiple studies have been conducted examining the effects of nursing care in the ICU and the ICU environment on patient recovery rates. From these studies researchers have determined a number of variables may influence patient recovery. Some positive factors identified include familial visitations, which may promote a more caring, comfortable and relaxed environment within the ICU. In some cases however, such as in the case when children visit adults in an ICU environment, increasing tensions and anxiety may result."

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