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American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, compromised transitional care for ICU patients may result in complications, including adverse events, readmission to the ICU, and increased rates of mortality. The knowledge gained by studying ICU patients, who experience a number of transitions, will provide insight and understanding of the process these patients undergo and facilitate improved clinical practices that may be applicable to other groups of patients. In this article, we review current literature on transitional care for ICU patients, with a focus on contemporary challenges, problematic clinical practices, and future research directions.

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Another reason to be wary of a hospital stay- a new study shows that patients who survive intensive care units in hospitals are at high risk for developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD is in the news most often in relation to combat veterans, but researchers from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine found that one in three people who survived an intensive care unit (ICU) stay for acute lung injury showed PTSD symptoms that lasted up to two years.

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Outline:
• What is different in the intensive care unit (ICU)
• Highlight ICU nurses
• Specific ICU-related consequences on well-being
• Potential interventions
• My thoughts on future directions

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The two pagers provide information about Delirium which included: definition, symptoms, causes and how it can be treated.

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Understanding your ICU stay, information for patients and families.

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The book explains to the family of the patients in the ICU what to expect and provides information to them so that they can better informed decision.

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Risk Assessment: Distance from hospital, female gender, adequate support, preference for inclusion in decision-making, decision-making style, needs, comprehension, pre-existing: anxiety, depression, or PTSD.

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In 2010, the Society of Critical Care Medicine organized a task force to raise awareness of the long-term cognitive, psychological, and physical impairments in survivors of critical illness. Impairments in these three domains are collectively known as post-intensive care syndrome (PICS). PICS affects 50–70% of intensive care unit (ICU) survivors, and its effects can persist for 5–15 years after ICU hospitalization. One major barrier in the assessment of PICS is the lack of a single, validated clinical tool to rapidly assess impairments in all three domains of PICS.

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The communication board helps the ICU patient to communication with the caregiver.

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There is a common misconception that people who come down with COVID-19 experience one of two disease courses: They have minimal or no symptoms that clear up in a week, or they get extremely ill and either die or recover after receiving intensive care treatment. But now that the coronavirus has been under sharp focus for more than six months, physicians are noting that this binary belief is inaccurate. Some patients in both categories experience lingering symptoms and are at risk for long-term damage to organ systems weeks and months later.

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As awareness has grown of the great distress intensive care patients may suffer, units have begun recruiting psychologists to their teams. Intensive care unit psychologists aim to assess and reduce distress for patients, families and staff, to improve outcomes. This paper summarizes research on the psychological impact of critical illness, highlights the growth of critical care health psychology as a specialty, and discusses potential roles of psychologists and the evidence base for psychological interventions in critical care departments.

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Patients will survive coronavirus—but that survival will likely come at a cost for some. Research on similar populations suggests that at least 50% of people who survive admission to an intensive care unit (ICU) can be left with what researchers now call “post-intensive care syndrome,” a constellation of emotional, cognitive, and physical symptoms that limit their functioning. Survivors of critical illness can often return to the world with memory problems and difficulty planning and processing that is similar to those with moderate traumatic brain injury or mild dementia. Other survivors experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), at an incidence ranging from 10% to 50%. Their caregivers, too, will often experience a cluster of adverse outcomes, including anxiety, PTSD, and depression.