Intensive & critical care nursing : the official journal of the British Association of Critical Care Nurses
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Intensive Crit Care Nurs · Dec 2017
Impact of prior ICU experience on ICU patient family members' psychological distress: A descriptive study.
To determine if current levels of anxiety, depression and acute stress disorder symptoms differ significantly among family members of intensive-care-unit patients depending upon previous intensive-care experience. ⋯ Results of this study show that family members' psychological distress is higher with previous familial or personal intensive-care experience. Nurses need to assess for psychological distress in ICU family members and identify those who could benefit from additional support services provided in collaboration with multidisciplinary support professionals.
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Intensive Crit Care Nurs · Dec 2017
A survey of next of kin needs of trauma patients admitted to Intensive Care Units in South Africa.
To conduct a cross-sectional survey of next of kin needs of critically injured trauma patients admitted to Intensive Care Units in South Africa. ⋯ The next of kin have a great number of needs that are currently not being met (both in the state and the private hospital and these needs actually increase over time. This study can help nurses understand the needs of next of kin in the Intensive Care Unit and that these needs change over the hospitalization period.
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Intensive Crit Care Nurs · Dec 2017
Relation between parental psychopathology and posttraumatic growth after a child's admission to intensive care: Two faces of the same coin?
Confronted with the potentially traumatic experience of a child's admission to a paediatric intensive care unit, parents may experience psychopathological post-trauma symptoms as well as posttraumatic growth. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to explore the relation between psychopathology symptoms, namely, posttraumatic stress disorder), anxiety and depression, as well as post traumatic growth in parents following their child's hospitalisation in a paediatric intensive care unit. ⋯ Given that positive and negative outcomes after a child's critical admission tend to co-occur, it is surmised that parents who indicate post traumatic growth do not deny the difficulties. While not negating the negative impact on the mental health of a parent with a child admitted to intensive care, including the assessment of post traumatic growth as an outcome following this event has important implications for research and clinical practice.
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Intensive Crit Care Nurs · Dec 2017
Parents' experiences and the effect on the family two years after their child was admitted to a PICU-An interview study.
For parents, having a child admitted to a paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) is a very stressful experience filled with anxiety. Parents are often scared and traumatised. This stress can lead to PTSD. ⋯ Parents, siblings and the ill child could all show symptoms of anxiety, stress and sleeping disorders. The parents valued life differently.
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Intensive Crit Care Nurs · Oct 2017
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.