American journal of critical care : an official publication, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
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Observational Study
Critical Care Nurse Burnout in Veterans Health Administration: Relation to Clinician and Patient Outcomes.
Critical care nurses have a burnout rate among the highest of any nursing field. Nurse burnout may impact care quality. Few studies have considered how temporal patterns may influence outcomes. ⋯ In this multiyear, multisite study, critical care nurse burnout was associated with key clinician and patient outcomes. Efforts to address burnout among nurses may improve patient and employee outcomes.
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Delirium as a sudden cognitive and behavioral change can be traumatic for family caregivers. An understanding of family caregivers' experiences with delirium in their loved one in an intensive care unit (ICU) will help clinicians provide family-centered care. ⋯ Family caregivers' health is crucial to ensuring the effectiveness of family engagement in delirium management. Future studies should consider family caregiver characteristics that could be used to predict psychological symptoms when caregivers are exposed to a patient's delirium and explore whether specific types of delirium cause more psychological impacts and needs among family caregivers than other types of delirium cause.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
I've Got the Power: Nurses' Moral Distress and Perceptions of Empowerment.
Nurses experience moral distress when they feel disempowered or impeded in taking the ethically right course of action. Research suggests an inverse relationship between moral distress and empowerment. In the intensive care unit, providing palliative care services may reduce moral distress because palliative care is often provided in situations that give rise to moral distress. ⋯ Nurses' sense of empowerment and the frequency of moral distress are favorably affected by active participation in assessing and communicating patients' palliative care needs.