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Abstract
An Intensive Care Unit is a specially staffed, and equipped, separate and self contained section of the hospital for the management of patients with life threatening or potentially life threatening conditions. An Intensive Care Unit provides special expertise and facilities for the support of vital functions, and utilizes the skills of medical, nursing and other staff with expertise in the management of these problems.
Over the past decade, there has been increasing attention to issues surrounding patient safety and human error in health care and specifically in the critical care area. Adverse events have often been used as indicators of quality and safety in health service delivery.
Providing safety nursing care to the critically ill patient, requires that critical care nurse has a broad knowledge base and demonstrates expert clinical and decision-making skills.
Critical care nurses must develop thier knowledge, skills and safe practice in acute areas where patients requiring more detailed observation or intervention to deliver safe and effective care. Nurses in critical care needed the knowledge, skills and support to provide safe care to these patients and to be able to assess the condition of these patients . This refers to putting knowledge and skills into practice and using them appropriately in the clinical setting in a variety of different circumstances.
Practice nurses have extensive responsibilities such as monitoring of patients’ haemodynamic and respiratory status and adjustment of vasocative drugs and ventilatory support, weaning of mechanical ventilation, titration of sedative and analgesic therapies and operation of continuous renal replacement treatment.
ICU Staff nurse is responsible for the delivery of excellence in patient care through assessing, formulating nursing diagnoses and establishing goals, planning and implementing intervention and evaluating patient care outcomes. Nurse practice he/she is responsible for participating in and maintaining quality, Safety, cost effectiveness and guest relations.
The aim of this study was to assess the nurses’ practices regarding the implementation of safety measures in the critical care units. This study was conducted at unit I and unit III critical care units of Alexandria Main University Hospital.