Patient comfort during critical illness special issue (Editorial)
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Aitken, LM
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Pain, anxiety, agitation and delirium have been associated with cognitive impairments, poor health-related quality of life, and mortality in both adults and children. A proactive approach to early, effective assessment is a pre-requisite for appropriate management of those symptoms and is a core element of nursing care of critically ill patients. As nurses are at the bedside 24/7, it is essential for them to show leadership in this area of practice that requires the input of the inter-disciplinary team to achieve high quality outcomes for the patient. This special issue is a demonstration of the growing body of science available to address the diverse challenges in assessment and care in this area.
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Australian Critical Care
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31
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3
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© 2018 Australian College of Critical Care Nurses Ltd. Published by Elsevier Australia. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
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Ramelet, AS; Aitken, LM, Patient comfort during critical illness special issue (Editorial), Australian Critical Care, 2018, 31 (3), pp. 143-144