Physiological Responses Related to Clustered Nursing Interventions among Mechanically Ventilated Patients | ||
| Alexandria Scientific Nursing Journal | ||
| Volume 19, Issue 2, December 2017, Pages 147-164 PDF (765.47 K) | ||
| Document Type: Research articles | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/asalexu.2017.208357 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Samar Abdel-Razek Younes* 1; Nadia Taha Mohamed2; Intessar Mohamed Ahmed1; Amr Hassan Dahroug3 | ||
| 1Critical Care and Emergency Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Damanhour University | ||
| 2Critical Care and Emergency Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, AlexandriaUniversity | ||
| 3Critical Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Caring of the mechanically ventilated patients is a fundamental component of the nurse's clinical practice in the intensive care units (ICUs). Clustered nursing interventions are defined as group of interventions more than six interventions for every patient in one nursing interaction. Physiological responses may be an immediate response or long term effects of one or more of the body systems related to physiological condition and therapeutic interventions. Critical care nurses monitor patient’s physiological parameters on a regular basis to assure the patient’s stability. Objective: Determine physiological responses related to clustered nursing interventions among mechanically ventilated patients. Setting: The ICUs of the Alexandria main university hospital and the General ICU of Damanhur Medical National Institute Hospital. Subjects: A convenience sampling of 80 adult mechanically ventilated patients. Tools: Two tools were used to collect the data of this study. Tool one: "Physiological Response Measurement" and tool two: "Clustered Nursing Interventions Assessment Record. Results: A significant relation between mean physiological responses and clustered nursing care. Conclusion: Most of the physiological responses were affected significantly by the number of clustered nursing interventions, other are indicated by mean respiratory rate, mean systolic blood pressure and mean oxygen saturation. Recommendations: Continuous monitoring of the physiological responses during clustered nursing care performance. On-clustered nursing interventions should be performed and applied in the ICUs to prevent physiological response alterations related to clustered nursing interventions performance. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Physiological Responses; Clustered Nursing Interventions; Mechanically Ventilated | ||
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