Articles: critical-care.
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AACN Clin Issues Crit Care Nurs · May 1994
Overcoming the obstacles to research-based clinical practice.
The utilization of research findings in the practice of critical care nursing is essential to obtain optimal patient outcomes. However, the speed and extent to which new research-based findings are applied to clinical practice falls short of expectations. The authors identify obstacles to the timely utilization of research. Strategies to overcome the obstacles to research-based clinical practice are presented.
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This paper provides an overview of the benefits of using music therapy in intensive care. Music therapy is described as a complementary therapy and can be used to complement more conventional and medically oriented treatments available to patients who are critically ill. The physiological and psychological effects of this intervention are discussed.