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Exploring resilience in critical care nursing: a qualitative inquiry into continuous adaptation, collaborative unity, and emotional balance [PDF]

BMC Nursing
Background Resilience is essential for nurses in critical care, where they face high-stakes situations requiring continuous adaptation, collaborative unity, and emotional balance.
Eman Arafa Hassan, Shimmaa Mohamed Elsayed   +1 more
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Effects of manual hyperinflation with rib cage compression and endotracheal suctioning on arterial blood gas parameters in mechanically ventilated patients at a university hospital, Egypt

The Egyptian Journal of Bronchology, 2021
Background Manual hyperinflation and expiratory rib cage compression are methods of chest physiotherapy. They are commonly applied but their value and their early utilization managing mechanically ventilated remain questionable.
Nahla Shaaban Khalil, Manal Sayed Ismaeel, Ahmed Hassan Askar, Mohamed Soliman Sayed   +3 more
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Thinking critically about the occurrence of widespread participation in poor nursing care [PDF]

, 2014
AimA discussion of how Arendt's work can be productively re-contextualized to provide a critical analysis of the occurrence of widespread participation in poor nursing care and what the implications of this are for the providers of nursing education ...
Ion, Robin, Roberts, Marc
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Clinical evaluation for the pharyngeal oxygen saturation measurements in shocked patients

BMC Nursing, 2022
Background Monitoring oxygen saturation in shocked patients is a challenging nursing procedure. Shock syndrome alters peripheral tissue perfusion and hinders peripheral capillary oxygen saturation (SpO2) measurements.
Eman Arafa Hassan, Sherouk Nasser Mohamed, Emad Hamdy Hamouda, Nadia Taha Ahmed   +3 more
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ACCCN Workforce Standards for Intensive Care Nursing: Systematic and evidence review, development, and appraisal [PDF]

, 2017
Background: The intensive care nursing workforce plays an essential role in the achievement of positive healthcare outcomes. A growing body of evidence indicates that inadequate nurse staffing and poor skill mix are associated with negative outcomes for ...
Chamberlain, Diane, Fulbrook, Paul, Pollock, Wendy   +2 more
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Comparison between modified Allen’s test and Barbeau test for the assessment of hands’ collateral circulation before arterial puncture among critically ill patients

International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences, 2021
Background: Continuous monitoring of critically ill patients requires an important procedure as arterial puncture. The first site of choice for arterial puncture is radial artery.
Ahmed Mohamed Zarea, Nadia Taha Ahmed, Suad Elsayed Abdelmotalb Elsaman   +2 more
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‘The Lighthouse Invites the Storm’ – Professional Regulation of Nursing in England and Wales – Under Threat [PDF]

, 2012
This paper explores current issues related to the professional regulation of nursing in England and Wales and considers whether self-regulation is currently under threat.
Young, Andy
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Does nurses' vulnerability affect their ability to care? [PDF]

, 2012
Recent reports from the Department of Health (2008), the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (2011) and the Commission on Dignity in Care for Older People (2012) have been highly critical regarding the care that some patients have experienced ...
Board, Michele, Heaslip, Vanessa
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Effect of selective brain cooling versus core cooling on achieving target temperature among patients with severe traumatic brain injury

International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences, 2020
Background: Neurotrauma is expected to become the third leading cause of death and disability worldwide. One of these serious injuries is a traumatic brain injury. It is estimated that 10 million people sustain a traumatic brain injury yearly.
Azza Abd Elrazek Baraka, Eman Arafa Hassan, Azza Hamdi El-Soussi, Hany Eid Mohamed   +3 more
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Moral Distress in Critical Care Nursing: The State of the Science [PDF]

, 2018
Background: Moral distress is a complex phenomenon frequently experienced by critical care nurses. Ethical conflicts in this practice area are related to technological advancement, high intensity work environments, and end-of-life decisions.
Epstein EG, Falcó-Pegueroles A, Jameton A, Jameton A, Jane Leske, Kathryn Schroeter, Meyers LS, Molazem Z, Natalie Susan McAndrew, Weinzimmer S, Winters R   +10 more
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