CJCCN Volume 35, Number 3, Winter 2024

Abstract:

Background:

Prolonged mechanical ventilation is harmful for patients requiring prompt weaning approaches from an interprofessional team with different and overlapping scopes of practice. Nurses play a key role in interprofessional teams, and optimization of their role can reduce the duration of mechanical ventilation.

Purpose: To understand the role of nurses in critical care in healthcare teams when weaning patients from mechanical ventilation.

Methods: Multiple-case study with concurrent mixed methods data collection was conducted in two critical care units following a pilot study in Québec,

Abstract

Background & Purpose: In response to the multitude of ethical issues that arise in the delivery of care provided in intensive care units (ICUs), nurses working in this setting frequently experience moral distress. The properties of moral distress have been well defined. However, within the context of the coronavirus-disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, less is known about the properties of moral distress experienced by ICU nurses. This subsequently affects the advancement of our knowledge,