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Volume 4, Issue 3
1 August 1993
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ISSN 1559-7768
EISSN 1559-7776

Immunity and Infection

The Immune System: Your Defensive Partner and Offensive Foe
M. Linda Workman, RN, PhD, FAAN, OCN
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Risking Infection: An Issue of Control for Liver Transplant Recipients
Debera Jane Thomas, DNS, RN
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Sternal Wound Infections
Patricia L. Vaska, RN, MSN, CCRN
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Humanizing Critical Care

Results of the Consensus Conference on Fostering More Humane Critical. Care: Creating a Healing Environment
Maurene A. Harvey, RN, MPH, FCCM; Nicholas P. Ninos, MD, FCCM; Diane C. Adler, RN, MA, FCCM; Sandra K. Goodnough-Hanneman, RN, PhD; William E. Kaye, MD, FCCM; Diana L. Nikas, RN, MN, FCCM
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Participants’ Abstracts: THE PATIENT’S PERSPECTIVE
Sue Baier
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Fostering Comforting Touch in Caring for Critically Ill Patients
Barbara Bartz
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Communication: One Key to More Humane Care in ICU
Jan Byrd
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Facilitating Weaning in the Ventilator Dependent Patient
Susan Walsh
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The Family as Facilitator of Hope During A Critical Illness
Michael Farruggia
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Weekly Interdisciplinary Conferences for All Members of the Critical Care Team
Joel Frader
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What Does A “DNR” Order Really Mean—A Checklist to Clarify What Should and Should Not Be Done
Karen A. Giuliano
View Articletitled, What Does A “DNR” Order Really Mean—A Checklist to Clarify What Should and Should Not Be Done
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A “Back To Basics” Approach: Caring for Patient and Families
Vivian Grinder
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Establishing Sensitivity Toward Patient and Family
Susan Helms
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Designing A Family-Focused Critical Care Unit
Barbara Kupperschmid
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Cultivating a Humane Caregiver
Mitchell M. Levy
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Bridging the Gap Between Patients, Their Families and Members of the Critical Care Team
Mitchell M. Levy
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Influence of Full Spectrum Lighting on the Psychoneuroimmunology of Patients in the Critical Care Unit: A Humanistic Intervention
Rosemary Lynch
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Ideas for Exploration: Unit Design Using Environmental-Patterning
Vicki Mahn
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Strategies for Promoting Humane Care in Novice Critical Care Nurses
Patricia Lewis
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Caring: A Beacon of Hope: Bringing Out the Best in Patients and Families
Barbara McLean
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The Siblings of Critically Ill Children: Sibling Visitation in A Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Janet McMorris
View Articletitled, The Siblings of Critically Ill Children: Sibling Visitation in A Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
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Multidisciplinary Care Plan for the Dying Patient: A Strategy to Promote Humane Caring in ICU
Elizabeth Henneman
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Role Playing in Critical Care
Donna O’Bryan-Osborne
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Diminishing Physician Responsibility—A Perverse Effect of Patient Autonomy
Vinod Puri
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Family-Centered Care: The Cornerstone of Humanistic Critical Care
Cindy Hylton Rushton
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Providing Critical Care to Patients Who Remain on an Inpatient Unit
Barbara Shelton
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Fostering Humanism Among Third- and Fourth-Year Medical Students: The “Psych” Conference in Ambulatory Medicine
Mark McKinney
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Role Modeling by A Critical Care Specialist as A Technique for Nurturing A Humanistic Approach Among Third- and Fourth-Year Medical Students
Phillip Slocum
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Collaborative Practice: An Approach to Humane Caregiving
Marion Spector
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A Bereavement Follow Up Program for Families Who Lose A Child: A New Tool to Foster Humanism Among Caregivers
Gregory Stidham
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Incorporating the Role of Patient Advocate in the Critical Care Unit
Elaine Swope
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Fostering a Sense of Commitment and Caring in the Critical Care Environment
Elaine Swope
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A Model for the Development of Integrated Ethics and Human Values Curricula as an Adjunct for Fostering Humane Caring Among Caregivers
Robert Taraszewski
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A Unique Individualized Graduate Program in Critical Care Ethics and Human Values in Medicine
Robert Taraszewski
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A Special Care Unit for the Chronically Critically Ill
Barbara Daly
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Humane Care and Technology in the Pediatric ICU—Clarifying the Limits of the Patient’s or Family’s Role in Treatment Decisions
I. David Todres
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Designing for Privacy in the ICU
Carl Weigle
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Creating a Practice Environment That Empowers Nurses to Carry Out Professional Caring and Healing Services
Bonnie Wesorick
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Re-Establishment of Personalities in the ICU: Use of the Personality Display Board to Minimize Depersonalization
Michael Williams
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An Adult Bereavement Follow-Up Program
Peggy Jarvis Woolf
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Bringing Out the Best in Patients and Families: Involving Parents in the Care of Their Critically Ill Child
Jennifer J. Wright
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A Professional Nurse Caring as Perceived by Critically Ill Patients: A Phenomenological Study
Linda J. Miers
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The Dying Patient in the Intensive Care Unit: Assisting the Family in Crisis
Brian E. Mendyka, MSN, MA, RN
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Do Critical Care Nurses Face Burnout, PTSD, or is it Something Else?: Getting Help for the Helpers
Kathleen Houston Acker, BSN, RN, CCRN
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Case Studies

High-Dose Steroid Therapy Offers Improvement in Spinal Cord Injuries
Myra F. Ellis, RN, MSN, CCRN
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Phrenic Nerve Pacing—An Alternative to Positive Pressure Ventilation: The Required Nursing Care
Gayle M. Kovach, MSN, RN; Susan Henry, RN, CCRN
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Index

Index to AACN Clinical Issues in Critical Care Nursing
View Articletitled, Index to AACN Clinical Issues in <em>Critical Care Nursing</em>
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All Issues
Rise of the Virtual Nurse
Implementation of a Gameboard Approach for Team-Based Manuscript Development
Advanced Variables to Optimize Hemodynamic Monitoring
Pediatric Nursing Care of the Critically Ill Patient With Univentricular Physiology Stabilized With the Berlin Heart EXCOR
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