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Volume 4, Issue 3

1 August 1993

ISSN 1559-7768

EISSN 1559-7776

In this Issue

Immunity and Infection
Humanizing Critical Care
Case Studies
Index

Immunity and Infection

The Immune System: Your Defensive Partner and Offensive Foe

M. Linda Workman, RN, PhD, FAAN, OCN

Risking Infection: An Issue of Control for Liver Transplant Recipients

Debera Jane Thomas, DNS, RN

Sternal Wound Infections

Patricia L. Vaska, RN, MSN, CCRN

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

Participants’ Abstracts: THE PATIENT’S PERSPECTIVE

Sue Baier

Fostering Comforting Touch in Caring for Critically Ill Patients

Barbara Bartz

Communication: One Key to More Humane Care in ICU

Jan Byrd

Facilitating Weaning in the Ventilator Dependent Patient

Susan Walsh

The Family as Facilitator of Hope During A Critical Illness

Michael Farruggia

Weekly Interdisciplinary Conferences for All Members of the Critical Care Team

Joel Frader

What Does A “DNR” Order Really Mean—A Checklist to Clarify What Should and Should Not Be Done

Karen A. Giuliano

A “Back To Basics” Approach: Caring for Patient and Families

Vivian Grinder

Establishing Sensitivity Toward Patient and Family

Susan Helms

Designing A Family-Focused Critical Care Unit

Barbara Kupperschmid

Cultivating a Humane Caregiver

Mitchell M. Levy

Bridging the Gap Between Patients, Their Families and Members of the Critical Care Team

Mitchell M. Levy

Influence of Full Spectrum Lighting on the Psychoneuroimmunology of Patients in the Critical Care Unit: A Humanistic Intervention

Rosemary Lynch

Ideas for Exploration: Unit Design Using Environmental-Patterning

Vicki Mahn

Strategies for Promoting Humane Care in Novice Critical Care Nurses

Patricia Lewis

Caring: A Beacon of Hope: Bringing Out the Best in Patients and Families

Barbara McLean

The Siblings of Critically Ill Children: Sibling Visitation in A Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Janet McMorris

Multidisciplinary Care Plan for the Dying Patient: A Strategy to Promote Humane Caring in ICU

Elizabeth Henneman

Role Playing in Critical Care

Donna O’Bryan-Osborne

Diminishing Physician Responsibility—A Perverse Effect of Patient Autonomy

Vinod Puri

Family-Centered Care: The Cornerstone of Humanistic Critical Care

Cindy Hylton Rushton

Providing Critical Care to Patients Who Remain on an Inpatient Unit

Barbara Shelton

Fostering Humanism Among Third- and Fourth-Year Medical Students: The “Psych” Conference in Ambulatory Medicine

Mark McKinney

Role Modeling by A Critical Care Specialist as A Technique for Nurturing A Humanistic Approach Among Third- and Fourth-Year Medical Students

Phillip Slocum

Collaborative Practice: An Approach to Humane Caregiving

Marion Spector

A Bereavement Follow Up Program for Families Who Lose A Child: A New Tool to Foster Humanism Among Caregivers

Gregory Stidham

Incorporating the Role of Patient Advocate in the Critical Care Unit

Elaine Swope

Fostering a Sense of Commitment and Caring in the Critical Care Environment

Elaine Swope

A Model for the Development of Integrated Ethics and Human Values Curricula as an Adjunct for Fostering Humane Caring Among Caregivers

Robert Taraszewski

A Unique Individualized Graduate Program in Critical Care Ethics and Human Values in Medicine

Robert Taraszewski

A Special Care Unit for the Chronically Critically Ill

Barbara Daly

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

Designing for Privacy in the ICU

Carl Weigle

Creating a Practice Environment That Empowers Nurses to Carry Out Professional Caring and Healing Services

Bonnie Wesorick

Re-Establishment of Personalities in the ICU: Use of the Personality Display Board to Minimize Depersonalization

Michael Williams

An Adult Bereavement Follow-Up Program

Peggy Jarvis Woolf

Bringing Out the Best in Patients and Families: Involving Parents in the Care of Their Critically Ill Child

Jennifer J. Wright

A Professional Nurse Caring as Perceived by Critically Ill Patients: A Phenomenological Study

Linda J. Miers

The Dying Patient in the Intensive Care Unit: Assisting the Family in Crisis

Brian E. Mendyka, MSN, MA, RN

Do Critical Care Nurses Face Burnout, PTSD, or is it Something Else?: Getting Help for the Helpers

Kathleen Houston Acker, BSN, RN, CCRN

Case Studies

High-Dose Steroid Therapy Offers Improvement in Spinal Cord Injuries

Myra F. Ellis, RN, MSN, CCRN

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 to AACN Clinical Issues in Critical Care Nursing

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