The Living, Dynamic and Complex Environment Care in Intensive Care Unit
- 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”.
Author: | Andreas BüscherORCiDGND |
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Title (English): | The Living, Dynamic and Complex Environment Care in Intensive Care Unit |
URL: | http://bit.ly/2Px8opC |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1590/0104-1169.0568.2570 |
Parent Title (Multiple languages): | Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2015 |
Release Date: | 2018/08/23 |
Volume: | 23 |
Issue: | 3 |
First Page: | 411 |
Last Page: | 418 |
Faculties: | Fakultät WiSo |
DDC classes: | 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 610 Medizin, Gesundheit |
Review Status: | Veröffentlichte Fassung/Verlagsversion |