Intensive care nursing
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Intensive care nursing · Sep 1991
ReviewA review of communication with intubated patients and those with tracheostomies within an intensive care environment.
A major aspect of nursing care within intensive care environments is communication. If nursing communication with patients is to be both effective and therapeutic nurses need to understand the principles of communication and identify the purposes of nurse-patient interactions. The main purpose of this article is to review and examine normal communication channels and the actual and potential barriers to communication between nurses and patients who are intubated or have tracheostomies. The assessment of these patients' needs for communication, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing to meet them are discussed, and also implications for the future.
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The aim in this paper is to review the possible beneficial effects of music on intensive care patients. Many aspects are considered incorporating the history and physiological and psychological effects music may have. This is then related to the nurses' role within intensive care situations.