Aims and objectives To establish whether, and to what extent, tools measuring Unfinished
Nursing Care (UNC) that have been validated to date have the ability to detect the discrete …

Background Effective communication between intensive care unit patients and their families
and nurses promotes relationship-centered care and improves nurses' ability to meet patient …

Aim The aim of this study was to present the third position statement from the International
Learning Collaborative (ILC). The ILC is the foremost global organization dedicated to …

The theory of nurse-promoted engagement with families in the intensive care unit (ICU) was
developed to describe the dynamic and complex interplay between factors that support or …

Introduction Communication with hospitalized patients is crucial to improve the quality and
safety of health care. Methods The study assessed the communication methods used by …

Background Although many studies have considered mortality and adverse effects as
outcomes sensitive to nursing practice, it seems that other outcomes of nursing care in …

Objectives To inform design of quality improvement tools specific to patients with prolonged
intensive care unit stay, we determined characteristics (format/content), development …

Objectives To determine what type (eg, television, photographs, music, etc), content (eg,
nature scenes, family members, etc), and duration of visual and auditory stimuli should be …

Aims and objectives To offer a review of the differing terminologies used by clinicians and
researchers to describe the long‐term intensive care unit (ICU) patient and the underlying …

Background: Critical illness survivors may develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
following critical illness and hospitalization. Left untreated, PTSD may result in poor health …