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A review of critical care nursing staffing, education and practice standards
06 February 2012
Fenella J. Gill, Gavin D. Leslie, Carol Grech, Jos M. Latour
Summary: The aim of this paper is to review the differences and similarities in critical care nursing staffing, education and practice standards in the US, Canada, UK, New Zealand and Australia. Searc...
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Complementary and alternative medicine and critical care nurses: A survey of knowledge and practices in Australia
30 January 2012
Marie Cooke, Marion Mitchell, Evelin Tiralongo, Jenny Murfield
Summary: Background: The increasing and widespread use of complementary and alternative medicine in the general population requires health-care professionals to have a knowledge and appreciation of th...
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Mixed venous oxygen saturation monitoring revisited: Thoughts for critical care nursing practice
23 November 2011
Martin Christensen
Summary: Background: Less invasive methods of determining cardiac output are now readily available. Using indicator dilution technique, for example has made it easier to continuously measure cardiac o...
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Pain indicators in brain-injured critical care adults: An integrative review
21 November 2011
Marie-José Roulin, Anne-Sylvie Ramelet
Summary: Introduction: Health professionals are confronted with the difficulty of adequately evaluating pain in critically ill, brain-injured patients, as these patients are often unable to self-repor...
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A survey of ward nurses attitudes to the Intensive Care Nurse Consultant service in a teaching hospital
17 November 2011
Tammie McIntyre, Carmel Taylor, Glenn M. Eastwood, Daryl Jones, Ian Baldwin, Rinaldo Bellomo
Summary: The aim of an Intensive Care Nurse Consultant (ICNC) service is to optimise care of complex ward patients and reduce adverse events. Despite their widespread implementation, specific assessme...
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