User:DawnORN61/sandbox

Critical care nurses want to care for their patients. We follow latest evidence based practice, read articles on best care practices. For years we have sedated our patients that are on ventilators to keep them from being overly stressed and to prevent post traumatic stress syndrome. In recent years and months, we have learned from our patients that they are having long term psychological issues, nightmares, cognitive effects and physical disabilities from being sedated on ventilators. They have shared with us their anguish, we are calling it post intensive care syndrome.(http://www.americannursetoday.com/assets/0/434/436/440/10226/10228/10232/10278/02ba438f-5b12-484e-8165-df5d365354f5.pdf). As a critical care nurse of over 20 years, this information has caused me to make a dramatic change in practice as well as lead the charge in changing the culture of care in the unit I work in to better understand the impact we are having on patient's lives, and purpose to lessen the effects where we can.(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7Qla-maDMc&noredirect=1)