Intensive Patient Education

which educational methodology, online or traditional, will have a greater impact on the alarm management behavior of the nursing staff in the cardiac intensive care unit. This will be evident if the number of nuisance alarms are affected by one or the other educational methodology of presenting the education. The expectation is one mode of education will result in a greater reduction in the number of false and non-actionable alarms over the other. Reduction in the number of false and non-actionable

a serious patient safety issue, with alarm mismanagement as being the root cause of alarm fatigue (The Joint Commission, 2013). Numerous regulatory and nursing organizations have published strategies to manage alarm fatigue, however evidence is lacking on the best methodology of educating nurses to alarm management. Put one or two lines of the problem the spurred this project. The aim of this study is to compare the effect of online education methodology versus traditional education methodology

educational program in the intensive care unit. The protocol aims at educating registered nurses who work in the intensive care unit to identify those patients that can benefit from early implementation of palliative care. Nurses who have adequate skills and knowledge and are at ease communicating with patients, families, and health care providers about palliative care can significantly help improve the quality of life of these particular patients while in the intensive care unit (ICU) setting (Moir

clinical practice requiring different educations and trainings as well as experience and competency of the clinical skills. One of the most highly skilled paramedical roles in this organisation of emergency medical services, intensive care paramedic, is what most paramedics aspire to. Intensive Care Paramedics are emergency medical professionals with pre-requisite

prophylaxis; (5) daily oral care with chorahexidine.” (Lim, et al., 2015) Recently in 2015, the South Miami adult intensive care unit added oral chlorahexadine to the

Their findings served as a landmark study and initiated the impetus related to improving our sedation practices. According to Kress et al. (2000), daily interruption of sedation led to a decrease in the number of days on the ventilator in the intensive care unit. Several studies since this time have focused on the influence of sedation protocols, and outcomes. This paper will review the synthesis of the discovered studies and highlight the noted contraindications and inconsistencies. Also, explanations

Their findings served as a landmark study and initiated the impetus related to improving our sedation practices. According to Kress et al. (2000), daily interruption of sedation led to a decrease in the number of days on the ventilator in the intensive care unit. Several studies since this time have focused on the influence of sedation protocols, and outcomes. This paper will review the synthesis of the discovered studies and highlight the noted contraindications and inconsistencies. Also, explanations

Medical/Surgical Intensive Care Unit Emilee Snider Historical Trends in Nursing Critical Care Nursing Critical care nursing can be traced back to the battlefield and recovery room of the earlier decades and has evolved into the modern intensive care units today. The early 1950s through the 1990s is an era in which unpredicted and radical changes occurred in the care of all patients with the development and growth of intensive/critical care units in hospitals. The reasons for initiating these

Evaluation The purpose of this project was to determine if traditional education had a greater impact on the number of false and non-actionable alarms over presenting education in an online educational format. Evidence supports that alarm fatigue is a nursing problem that puts patients at risk for ham. Reducing the number of nuisance alarms decreases the occurrence of alarm fatigue among registered nurses. Evidence also supports patient harm is lessened when alarm fatigue is reduced (Sendelbach, S.,

In the article “ A study of lived experiences of registered nurses who have provided end-of-life care within an intensive care unit”, by Holms (2014), the author discussed the qualitative research that was done to determine what registered nurse’s knew about life of end care and and how they felt about end of life care in the intensive care unit. In this study the phenomenological qualitative research design was used and took place in an ICU in Scotland. “Phenomenological studies describe the meaning