The creation of meaning - Intensive care nurses' experiences of conducting nurse-led follow-up on intensive care units.

Objective: To explore and describe the experiences of Norwegian intensive care unit nurses providing nurse-led follow-up to patients and their families.

Design And Methods: The study had a qualitative design with a phenomenological approach. Three focus-group interviews were conducted with nurses on three intensive care units.

Effect of a scoring system and protocol for sedation on duration of patients' need for ventilator support in a surgical intensive care unit.

Problem: Need for improved sedation strategy for adults receiving ventilator support.

Design: Observational study of effect of introduction of guidelines to improve the doctors' and nurses' performance. The project was a prospective improvement and was part of a national quality improvement collaborative.