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A Nurse-Managed Follow-Up Practice for Patients After Discharge from the Intensive Care Unit: Development, Testing and Implementation

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Intensive care nursing is a relatively new specialty area in nursing. The need for highly sophisticated nursing care of patients in life-threatening conditions is expanding. Knowledge to illuminate the care is growing, but still there are areas where evidence is limited. One of these areas is aftercare of patients with a compromised physical and psychological health status due to consequences of critical illnesses and intensive care stay. With positive, but limited, findings of the nature and effectiveness of aftercare and our clinical experience, we decided to embark on an implementation research project to improve post-intensive care of these patients at Landspitali—the National University Hospital of Iceland. This idea matured and evolved into a doctoral thesis in nursing. The aims of this chapter are to describe the development of a nurse-led follow-up intervention for critically ill patients post-intensive care stay and highlight findings of the testing of the intervention, along with an illustration of how the findings have been adjusted and implemented in the practice of an intensive care clinical nurse specialist.

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  1. Intensive Care, Landspitali - The National University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland

    Rannveig J. Jónasdóttir

  2. Faculty of Nursing, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland

    Helga Jónsdóttir

  3. Landspitali - The National University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland

    Helga Jónsdóttir

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Jónasdóttir, R.J., Jónsdóttir, H. (2019). A Nurse-Managed Follow-Up Practice for Patients After Discharge from the Intensive Care Unit: Development, Testing and Implementation. In: Hafsteinsdóttir, T., Jónsdóttir, H., Kirkevold, M., Leino-Kilpi, H., Lomborg, K., Rahm Hallberg, I. (eds) Leadership in Nursing: Experiences from the European Nordic Countries. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10964-6_13

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