Nurses Caring for ICU Patients With Intellectual Developmental Disabilities in the United States: An Interpretivist Narrative Analysis Using Western Story Arcs.

Background: Understanding ICU nurses' experiences in caring for patients with intellectual developmental disabilities is crucial. Insights can inform supportive measures and training programs to enhance nurse well-being and patient population-specific outcomes.

Objective: The primary objective of this study was to explore and understand the lived experiences of nurses caring for patients with intellectual developmental disabilities.

Triage ethics in mass casualty incident simulation: A phenomenological exploration.

Background: Disaster scenarios challenge both novice and experienced nurses to navigate complex ethical dilemmas in resource-limited environments. Traditional nursing education often leaves new nurses unprepared for the ethical demands of disaster nursing. Utilitarianism must often guide triage ethics and decision-making.

Responding to patient deterioration from simulation to practice: A narrative study of undergraduate nursing students.

Objective: This study explores the impact of simulation-based training on nursing students' readiness to respond to patient deterioration in clinical practice.

Background: With limited in-hospital training opportunities, nursing educators seek alternative strategies to teach clinical skills. Simulation-based training offers a controlled environment for skill development and refinement.

Nurses' Professional Quality of Life and Self-Care: A Mixed-Methods Study.

Background: Improving retention of nurses working in critical care is an urgent priority. Ideas on how to do this abound, but actual data are inconclusive. One common theory is that simply increasing nurse resiliency will minimize turnover.

The evolution of professional identity in intensive care nurses during COVID-19 - An interpretive phenomenological study.

Objectives: This study explored the meaning behind professional identity in intensive care nurses who cared for patients with COVID-19.

Research Methodology/design: The exploration was conducted using a qualitative interpretive phenomenological approach with guidance from hermeneutics.

Setting: Semi-structured audiovisual interviews were conducted with intensive care unit nurses (n = 20) throughout the United States of America, spanning nurse experiences of caring for patients with COVID-19 between 2019 and 2022.