Impact of a Nurse-Driven Patient Empowerment Intervention on the Reduction in Patients' Anxiety and Depression During ICU Discharge: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Objectives: To assess the impact of a nurse-driven patient empowerment intervention on anxiety and depression of patients during ICU discharge.

Design: A prospective, multicenter, randomized clinical trial.

Setting: Three ICUs (1 medical, 1 medical and surgical, and 1 coronary) of three tertiary hospitals.

Patients' experience while transitioning from the intensive care unit to a ward.

Background: Intensive care unit (ICU) patients can experience emotional distress and post-traumatic stress disorder when they leave the ICU, also referred to as post-intensive care syndrome. A deeper understanding of what patients go through and what they need while they are transitioning from the ICU to the general ward may provide input on how to strengthen patient-centred care and, ultimately, contribute to a positive experience.

Aim: To describe the patients' experience while transitioning from the ICU to a general ward.

Mixed-method research protocol: Development and evaluation of a nursing intervention in patients discharged from the intensive care unit.

Aim: (a) To understand patients' lived experience at intensive care unit (ICU) discharge and (b) to evaluate the impact of a nursing empowerment intervention (NEI) on patients' anxiety and depression levels at ICU discharge.

Design: A mixed-methods approach will be applied.

Methods: In the qualitative phase, the hermeneutic phenomenological method will be used.