Nursing management
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To move beyond illness-directed behaviors, a Recognizing/Needing graph directs nurses to present environmental stressors, needs and suggestions for future interventions. Assessment questions focus on illuminating meaning, synchronizing rhythms, and mobilizing transcendence, encouraging them to adopt health-directed behaviors.
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Critically ill patients need their families more than ever, but rigid policies often restrict family visitation in ICU. Family visitation is not a "privilege" granted by hospitals, it is a necessary adjunct to the therapeutic regimen. Though changing outdated visitation policies can be difficult, it must be done. The clinical nurse specialist can play an important role in planning and implementing needed change.