Difficulties Faced by Nurses Who Care For Patients with Delirium in the ICU

Difficulties Faced by Nurses Who Care For Patients with Delirium in the ICU

We developed a difficulty scale for nurses caring for patients with delirium in the intensive care unit and confirmed its reliability and validity. The difficulty factors were developed with the intention to identify educational... read more

International Council of Nurses #NursesForPeace Campaign

International Council of Nurses #NursesForPeace Campaign

As the war in Ukraine continues and the death toll of victims rises, the International Council of Nurses (ICN) repeats its call for an immediate ceasefire and an end to hostilities for the sake of the people of Ukraine and... read more

Why Don’t Hospitals Just Pay Full-time Nurses More?

Why Don’t Hospitals Just Pay Full-time Nurses More?

Hospitals' reliance on travel workers is nothing new. The pandemic intensified it and highlighted the gap between full-time workers' pay and lucrative temporary contracts. While the average salary for a travel nurse can... read more

Omicron Magnifies the Distress in the Health Care Labor System

Omicron Magnifies the Distress in the Health Care Labor System

In December 2020, to the tune of rousing cheers, the first health care workers began getting vaccinated against COVID-19. A year later, the cheers have died down, vaccination rates have plateaued, and the Omicron wave... read more

Year of the Nurse: A 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic Memoir

Year of the Nurse: A 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic Memoir

This book is for everyone, nurse or otherwise, who is furious about how 2020 went down and how 2021 is going. #1 Amazon Bestseller in Critical & Intensive Care Nursing #1 Amazon Bestseller in Mental Health Nursing #1... read more

ICU Workers Are Quitting Due To Crushing Stress From COVID-19 Surge

ICU Workers Are Quitting Due To Crushing Stress From COVID-19 Surge

As hospitals struggle in Los Angeles County, Intensive Care Unit nurses confront tough choices: remain in the coronavirus trenches for patients and colleagues, or quit when you are overwhelmed? The massive surge in coronavirus... read more

America Is Running Out of Nurses

America Is Running Out of Nurses

In normal times, there are some 50,000 travelling nurses in the United States. Most are full-time gig workers who move from job to job, usually staying in one place for thirteen weeks. (That length is a holdover from old... read more

Training Multidisciplinary Healthcare Workers to Reinforce ICUs in Times of Need

Training Multidisciplinary Healthcare Workers to Reinforce ICUs in Times of Need

ESICM is to carry out a C19 SPACE programme funded by the European Commission for the training of multidisciplinary healthcare professionals not regularly working in ICUs, to give extra support to ICUs during the COVID-19... read more

What Do Our Critical Care Nurses Need Right Now?

After experiencing the most intense period of work, our critical care nurse workforce need us to consider their needs carefully right now. In this webinar we explore individual, team and systems factors at play, and discuss... read more

Perceived Barriers to Rapid Response Team Activation Among Nurses

Perceived Barriers to Rapid Response Team Activation Among Nurses

The purpose of this literature review was to investigate the major barriers nurses face when it is necessary to seek additional assistance and resources by calling the rapid response team (RRT) in order to manage and stabilize... read more

What Happens If Health-Care Workers Stop Showing Up?

The United States needs its health-care workers to see it through this crisis. But there are no replacements on the shelf. They can't be built, trained, or repurposed from other jobs. Unless the country does dramatically... read more

I am a male nurse – so what?

I am a male nurse – so what?

For Brett Adamson, becoming a nurse was a gateway into helping the world’s most disadvantaged people. In 2005 Brett began working for the medical humanitarian aid organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières. That year was... read more

Nurse intuition may play a role in critical-care outcomes

Nurse intuition may play a role in critical-care outcomes

Nurse intuition doesn't sound scientific, but it could play a key role in critical-care outcomes, according to a small study published in DovePress. The researchers conducted a descriptive phenomenological study, interviewing... read more

Nurses make me a better doctor

Nurses make me a better doctor

I firmly believe that the relationship between a nurse and physician should be one of collaboration without hierarchy. It takes a very special person to become a nurse. Without them, physicians cannot function. I thank all... read more