Nursing Care in the ICU—2nd Edition
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Critical Care".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 32
Special Issue Editor
Interests: critical care; intensive care; sleep medicine; nursing/sleep in ICU
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The ICU environment is challenging for both patients and staff. The management of critically ill patients is extremely demanding, and the workload and knowledge level required of staff are high. ICU nurses are responsible for the care and treatment of patients in an unstable and/or critical clinical situation, assessing therapies and high-intensity interventions. ICU nursing practice includes crucial clinical decisions based on the best available scientific evidence, clinical experience, and patient preferences. ICU nurses carry out specific, autonomous, or complementary interventions of a technical–scientific, managerial, relational, and educational nature; plan healthcare assistance through scientifically validated tools; and identify, analyze, calculate, and treat risks related to care provision by systematically evaluating healthcare outcomes.
This Special Issue of Healthcare is dedicated to offering an overview of these activities. Topics that will be included are:
- Nursing care protocols (sedation, pain, nutrition, etc.);
- Delirium;
- Sleep;
- Infections;
- Pressure ulcers;
- Mobilization;
- Recording;
- Relatives;
- Oncology ICU patients;
- Elderly patients.
Experts from all specialties are encouraged to submit original research, project reports, short reports, reviews, and opinion papers.
Dr. Christina Alexopoulou
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Healthcare is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- ICU nursing
- critical care
- intensive care
- delirium
- sleep
- infections
- pressure ulcers mobilization
- recording
- relatives
- oncology ICU patient
- elderly patient
Related Special Issue
- Nursing Care in the ICU in Healthcare (10 articles)
