Volume 4 Issue 3 | AACN Advanced Critical Care | American Association of Critical-Care Nurses

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

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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

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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

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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

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