Patient characteristics associated with posttraumatic stress symptoms in intensive care unit survivors during a one-year follow-up: A multicenter study.

Background: Intensive care unit (ICU) patients are at risk of suffering from posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) after ICU survival.

Objectives: To describe the prevalence of high levels of PTSS the first year after ICU admission. Further, to identify specific combinations of patient characteristics (latent classes based on pre-ICU data, demographics, and clinical characteristics), and to investigate possible associations among these classes and PTSS at 3, 6, and 12 months after ICU admission.

Prevalence of and predictive factors associated with high levels of post-traumatic stress symptoms 3 months after intensive care unit admission: A prospective study.

Background: Post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) following intensive care unit (ICU) treatment may increase morbidity and mortality. Therefore, it is important to identify patients at risk of suffering from such symptoms.

Objectives: The objective of this study was to describe the prevalence and identify possible predictive factors associated with high levels of PTSS 3 months after ICU admission.

Patient transfer from intensive care units to general wards: An exploratory qualitative study of ward nurses' experiences of patient safety.

Aim: Patient transfer from intensive care units (ICUs) to general wards is a routine part of hospital care. However, if the transfer is not optimal, it can result in increased readmissions to the ICU, increased stress and discomfort for the patient and, thus, a threat to patient safety. The aim of this study was to explore how general ward nurses experience patient safety during patient transfers from ICUs to general wards.

Knowledge and Awareness of Non-Technical Skills Over the Course of an Educational Program in Nursing - A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study.

Background: Non-technical skills (NTS) play an important role in preventing adverse events during hospitalization. Knowledge, awareness and mastery of NTS becomes important key factors in preventing errors. Current status of students and supervisor's knowledge and awareness of NTS are needed in order to construct an educational plan for improvement.

Characteristics, management and survival of ICU patients with coronavirus disease-19 in Norway, March-June 2020. A prospective observational study.

Background: Norwegian hospitals have operated within capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic. We present patient and management characteristics, and outcomes for the entire cohort of adult (>18 years) COVID-19 patients admitted to Norwegian intensive care units (ICU) from 10 March to 19 June 2020.

Methods: Data were collected from The Norwegian intensive care and pandemic registry (NIPaR).

Pain in intensive care unit patients-A longitudinal study.

Aim: To assess occurrence of pain during the first 6 days of intensive care unit (ICU) stay and evaluate associations between occurrence of pain and selected patient-related variables.

Design: A longitudinal study.

Methods: Adult ICU patients from three units were included.

Competence in caring for patients with respiratory insufficiency: A cross-sectional study.

Objectives: To compare nurses' self-assessed competence and perceived need for more training in intensive care units treating patients with respiratory insufficiency before and after completion of a seven-hour educational programme, and to assess whether factors such as age, educational level, years of experience and percentage of employment are associated with these outcomes.

Research Methodology: The study had a quantitative, cross-sectional, descriptive design, with two measurement times. The ProffNurse SAS questionnaire was used to assess nurses' self-assessed competence and perceived need for more training.

Nurse's Evaluation of a Pain Management Algorithm in Intensive Care Units.

Background: Many patients have memories of pain during intensive care unit stay. To improve pain management, practice guidelines recommend that pain management should be guided by routine pain assessment and suggest an assessment-driven, protocol-based, stepwise approach. This recommendation prompted the development of a pain-management algorithm.

Pain relief from nonpharmacological interventions in the intensive care unit: A scoping review.

Aims And Objectives: To describe what is known from the existing literature on nonpharmacological interventions targeting pain in patients admitted to the ICU.

Background: Patients receiving intensive care nursing are exposed to a wide range of pain provoking tissue damage, diseases, surgery and other medical procedures in addition to the pain caused by nursing care procedures. The present shift to light sedation to improve patient outcomes and comfort underscores the need for effective pain management.

Results of implementing a pain management algorithm in intensive care unit patients: The impact on pain assessment, length of stay, and duration of ventilation.

Purpose: This study aimed to measure the impact of implementing a pain management algorithm in adult intensive care unit (ICU) patients able to express pain. No controlled study has previously evaluated the impact of a pain management algorithm both at rest and during procedures, including both patients able to self-report and express pain behavior, intubated and nonintubated patients, throughout their ICU stay.

Materials And Methods: The algorithm instructed nurses to assess pain, guided them in pain treatment, and was implemented in 3 units.

Quality of life improves in patients with chronic heart failure and Cheyne-Stokes respiration treated with adaptive servo-ventilation in a nurse-led heart failure clinic.

Aims And Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate if quality of life improved in chronic heart failure patients with Cheyne-Stokes respiration treated with adaptive servo-ventilation in nurse-led heart failure clinic.

Background: Cheyne-Stokes respiration is associated with decreased quality of life in patients with chronic heart failure. Adaptive servo-ventilation is introduced to treat this sleep-disordered breathing.

Development of a pain management algorithm for intensive care units.

Objectives: To develop a pain management algorithm for intensive care unit (ICU) patients and to evaluate the psychometric properties of the translated tools used in the algorithm.

Background: Many ICU patients experience pain. However, an evidence-based algorithm for pain management does not exist.

Implementation of a pain management algorithm in intensive care units and evaluation of nurses' level of adherence with the algorithm.

Objectives: To implement a pain management algorithm in intensive care units (ICU) and to evaluate nurses' level of adherence with the algorithm.

Background: Many ICU patients experience pain. Therefore, an evidence-based algorithm for pain management was developed.