Date of Award
12-5-2011
Document Type
Open Access Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts in Nursing (MAN)
Department
Nursing
Abstract
The intensive care unit (ICU) can be a very stressful environment. Patients are critically ill and require constant monitoring. Indeed, high tech care in the ICU environment includes multiple factors that may impair the patient's ability to sleep and rest. The purpose of this paper is to describe a practice model that is conducive to patient healing in an intensive care unit in a large urban hospital. This practice model is significant to patients, families, and nursing staff and is based on Florence Nightingale's Environmental Model of Nursing and her thirteen canons. This paper describes the potential implementation of the practice model, evaluation, and recommendations for the model.
Identifier
SC 11.MAN.2011.Egbers.E
Recommended Citation
Egbers, Elissa, "Creating a Healing Environment in the Intensive Care Unit" (2011). Theses and Graduate Projects. 463.
https://idun.augsburg.edu/etd/463