Wellbeing in the ICU: Staff Health, Humanised ICU, Improved Care
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- 05/05/2021
Wellbeing in the ICU: Staff Health, Humanised ICU, Improved Care
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12 Things to Do to Improve Wellbeing in the ICU
An overview of strategies and measures that can be implemented to improve wellbeing of staff and patients in the ICU. 1. Make the patient the centre of our preoccupations This is the first principle of wellbeing in the ICU and should be written in large letters when one enters an ICU. Wellbeing must concern first and foremost the patient....
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ICU Mental Health in the Ongoing Pandemic: How Will We Be Okay?
After a year of this pandemic, this article explores what we currently understand about the psychological impact experienced by ICU teams and provides practical guidance to help build personal and team resilience as the journey with COVID-19 continues with no end in sight. Introduction When COVID-19 emerged as a new pathogen, the pictures...
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The Essentials for a Humanised Intensive Care Unit (H-ICU)
This article highlights the key points that fall under the meaning of humanisation as part of the ICU Liberation bundle. Introduction How would a patient describe their stay inside an Intensive Care Unit (ICU)? Would it be cold, lonely, a place full of uncertainty? Painful, uncomfortable or scary? The length of stay (LOS) in the ICU may be...
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ICU is a Team Sport
The importance of creating a psychologically safe workplace and the need for a fundamental shift in workforce culture to foster compassionate leadership and collaborative approaches to delivering safe, supported care. I write this almost one year to the day after the UK announced its first coronavirus pandemic lockdown. The next few...
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Compassion and Humanism in the ICU – A Clinical Study
Importance and Objectives To observe the impact and main contributing factors of stress, anxiety and depression among frontline staff in the intensive care units during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to determine if wellness resources are useful. Design Mixed method observational cohort study. Setting and Participants...
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Intensive Care Physiotherapists Should be Using Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)
An overview of the potential of POCUS on clinical decision making at the bedside and the need to add it as a new diagnostic tool by intensive care physiotherapists. Introduction Intensive care physiotherapists often rely on standard assessment tools, such as measures of physiological function (arterial blood gases), adequacy/quality...
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Top Five Priorities for a New ICU Director During the First Year
During the first year, the ICU director should take a snapshot of the ICU situation and invest time and resources to acquire good and real data that will drive priorities of care and management. After that, implementation of basic protocols and creating a programme to engage and protect the staff against burnout should be considered. Finally, we...
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Wellbeing in the ICU
H ealthcare workers across the world have been facing significant challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, critical care workers have had to deal with several issues, including a surge of seriously ill patients, shortages of staff and resources, long shifts, exhaustion, risk of infection, fear of transmission to family, constant exposure...
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