scholarly journals Evaluation of Achieving to Clinical objectives in Nursing Students in Critical Care Units

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-44
Author(s):  
K Zehni ◽  
M Z Rokhzadi ◽  
sh Mahmoodi ◽  
M R Abdolmaleki ◽  
Gh Salehnezhad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Care ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Critical Care Units

scholarly journals The influence of peer mentoring on critical care nursing students’ learning outcomes

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 130-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maureen Nokuthula Sibiya ◽  
Thembelihle Sylvia Patience Ngxongo ◽  
Somavathy Yvonne Beepat
Keyword(s):  
Critical Care ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Nursing Student ◽  
Peer Mentoring ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Critical Care Nursing ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Critical Care Units ◽  
Care Nursing

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the influence of peer mentoring on critical care nursing students’ learning outcomes in critical care units. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative exploratory research design was used to conduct the study. Ten critical care nursing students were recruited from critical care units in the five private and two public hospitals. Descriptions of their experiences were gained through individual face-to-face interviews. Findings The study reinforces peer mentoring as a vital strategy in helping the critical care nursing students to attain their learning outcomes. However, peer mentoring was not consistent in all hospitals and there were no structured support systems to ensure that peer mentoring was formalized. Making peer mentoring a vital component in the registered nurses core competencies would enable efficiency and guarantee the viability of peer mentoring. Research limitations/implications Mentors for the critical care nursing students were not included in the study. Practical implications The study identified a need for incorporating a formalized mentorship programme into the core competencies of all qualified critical care nurses, the unit mentor to familiarise themselves with the prescribed learning objectives of the critical care nursing student and an allocation of supernumerary time for the critical care nursing student and mentors to allow for formal mentoring responsibilities to take place. Originality/value The study reinforces peer mentoring as a vital strategy in helping the critical care nursing students to attain their learning outcomes and conscietises registered nurses of their responsibility as mentors.

Asethetic Expression

2001 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Eifried, ◽  
Oma Riley-Giomariso, ◽  
Gayle Voigt
Keyword(s):  
Critical Care ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Phenomenological Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Bearing Witness ◽  
Critical Care Units ◽  
Surgical Units ◽  
The Face ◽  
Teaching Learning

Nursing students often reveal how helpless they feel in responding to the suffering of patients. During analysis of two interpretive phenomenological research studies, bearing witness to suffering emerged as a theme that captured the meaning of the experiences of students caring for patients in medical-surgical units and critical-care units. The discussion in this article centers on art as an expression of lived experience, being called by the face of the other, tears in the face of suffering, caring amid suffering, a circle of caring, and illuminating the spiritual in caring. The purpose of this paper is to describe the experiences of students caring for suffering patients and to explore how a pedagogy of suffering can change teaching, learning, and students’ future practices.

Data-Driven Optimization Methodology for Admission Control in Critical Care Units

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amirhossein Meisami ◽  
Jivan Deglise-Hawkinson ◽  
Mark Cowen ◽  
Mark P. Van Oyen
Keyword(s):  
Critical Care ◽  
Admission Control ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Critical Care Units ◽  
Optimization Methodology

Embodied Spatial Practices and the Power to Care

2019 ◽  
pp. 360-377
Author(s):  
Elise Paradis ◽  
Warren Mark Liew ◽  
Myles Leslie
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Critical Care ◽  
Health Care Delivery ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Critical Care Units ◽  
Interprofessional Care ◽  
The Social

Drawing on an ethnographic study of teamwork in critical care units (CCUs), this chapter applies Henri Lefebvre’s ([1974] 1991) theoretical insights to an analysis of clinicians’ and patients’ embodied spatial practices. Lefebvre’s triadic framework of conceived, lived, and perceived spaces draws attention to the role of bodies in the production and negotiation of power relations among nurses, physicians, and patients within the CCU. Three ethnographic vignettes—“The Fight,” “The Parade,” and “The Plan”—explore how embodied spatial practices underlie the complexities of health care delivery, making visible the hidden narratives of conformity and resistance that characterize interprofessional care hierarchies. The social orderings of bodies in space are consequential: seeing them is the first step in redressing them.

scholarly journals Effectiveness of Antimicrobial Filter Placement in ICU Taps to Prevent the Occurrence of HAIs by Pseudomonas aeruginosa (12-Months)

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. s206-s207
Author(s):  
Pablo Chico-Sánchez ◽  
Sandra Canovas-Javega ◽  
Natali J. Jimenez-Sepulveda ◽  
Edith Leutscher-Vasen ◽  
Cesar O. Villanueva-Ruiz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pseudomonas Aeruginosa ◽  
Critical Care ◽  
Etiologic Agent ◽  
Incidence Density ◽  
Healthcare Associated Infections ◽  
Open Label ◽  
Filter Placement ◽  
Critical Care Units ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Healthcare Associated

Background:Pseudomonas aeruginosa, is the third etiologic agent of healthcare associated infections, and the most frequent pathogen in ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). In critical care units is associated with high mortality, long hospital stay, and high healthcare-associated costs. We evaluated the effectiveness of filter placement in the water taps in critical care units to prevent the occurrence of healthcare-associated infections (HAIa) by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Methods: This experimental study was both cross-over and open-label in nature. We included patients admitted for >24 hours in critical care units over 24 months. The study was divided into 4 periods of 6 months each. We divided the study into 2 groups: patients in units with filters and patients in units without filters. We compared the incidence density of P. aeruginosa HAIs (number of cases divided by the number of person days) according the ECDC definition of case criteria between the groups. The 2 test was used, and the magnitude of the association was calculated as a rate ratio with a 95% confidence interval, adjusted using a Poisson regression model. Results: Overall, 1,132 patients were included in the study: 595 in units with water tap filters and 537 in units without water tap filters. HAI incidence among patients in units with water tap filters was 5.3 per 1,000 person days stay; without water tap filters, HAI incidence was 4.7 per 1,000 person days stay (HR, 0.94; 95% CI, 0.47–1.90). Conclusions: The preliminary results of this study indicate a a lower incidence of P. aeruginosa HAIs in units with filters placed in water taps than in units without filters.Disclosures: NoneFunding: None

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