Open AccessInstitutional Challenges and Solutions to Evidence-Based, Patient-Centered Practice: Implementing ICU Diaries
Author(s) -
Julie Rogan,
Megan Zielke,
Kelly Drumright,
Leanne M. Boehm
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
critical care nurse
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.342
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1940-8250
pISSN - 0279-5442
DOI - 10.4037/ccn2020111
Subject(s) - operationalization , intensive care unit , medicine , intensive care , nursing , unit (ring theory) , liability , medline , medical emergency , medical education , psychology , business , intensive care medicine , philosophy , mathematics education , epistemology , finance , political science , law
Although diaries are an evidence-based practice that improves the quality of life of patients in an intensive care unit and their loved ones, centers in the United States are struggling to successfully implement diary programs in intensive care units. Currently, few published recommendations address how to facilitate implementation of a diary program, and how to effectively sustain it, in an intensive care unit.