Advances in Intensive Care Nursing Research

Dear Colleagues,

In the last four decades, intensive care has developed into a multidisciplinary discipline with specialized educated intensive care nurses (ICU nurses), physiotherapists, physicians and other occupational categories. The different professions work together in teams and develop interventions to reduce patient mortality and suffering. Specialized intensive care units have been established, and person- and family-centered care has been developed for both adult patients and for children in pediatric and neonatal intensive care units.

Technological, scientific, and environmental advances have continually developed the care in ICUs, e.g., better ventilators cause less injuries to the patients’ lungs and increase comfort, which enables them to be less heavily sedated and to interact with the healthcare staff. Families are present at their bedside and participate in care, and ethical and communicative challenges can occur.

A dramatic increase in multi-resistant infections and nosocomial infections has occurred globally, which has made infection control in intensive care a world-wide challenge where preventive care is at the core of the nursing profession. The COVID-19 pandemic led to challenges in managing resources when caring for and a dramatic influx of critically ill patients at the same time and had an effect on quality of care and patient follow-up.

This Special Issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) focuses on the current state of knowledge of nursing care in different intensive care specialties.

We welcome manuscripts focused on patient follow-up, e.g., intensive care diaries and post-intensive care teams. Nursing interventions or quality development, e.g., care bundles focused on reducing ICU delirium, promote sleep or patient comfort, person-centered care in ICU, care of the elderly and patient safety research as well as research on patient experience, post-intensive care syndrome (PICS) and advances in education in the ICU.

Dr. Karin Skoglund
Dr. Helen Conte
Guest Editors

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