TY  - JOUR
A1  - Büscher, Andreas
T1  - The Living, Dynamic and Complex Environment Care in Intensive Care Unit
T2  - Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
N2  - Objective: to understand the meaning of the Adult Intensive Care Unit environment of care, 
experienced by professionals working in this unit, managers, patients, families and professional 
support services, as well as build a theoretical model about the Adult Intensive Care Unit 
environment of care. Method: Grounded Theory, both for the collection and for data analysis. 
Based on theoretical sampling, we carried out 39 in-depth interviews semi-structured from 
three different Adult Intensive Care Units. Results: built up the so-called substantive theory 
“Sustaining life in the complex environment of care in the Intensive Care Unit”. It was bounded 
by eight categories: “caring and continuously monitoring the patient” and “using appropriate 
and differentiated technology” (causal conditions); “Providing a suitable environment” and 
“having relatives with concern” (context); “Mediating facilities and difficulties” (intervenienting 
conditions); “Organizing the environment and managing the dynamics of the unit” (strategy) 
and “finding it difficult to accept and deal with death” (consequences). Conclusion: confirmed 
the thesis that “the care environment in the Intensive Care Unit is a living environment, dynamic 
and complex that sustains the life of her hospitalized patients”.
Y1  - 2018
UR  - https://opus.hs-osnabrueck.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1027
UR  - http://bit.ly/2Px8opC
VL  - 23
IS  - 3
SP  - 411
EP  - 418
ER  -