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hroughout its history, nursing has worked at keeping up with constant changes that have come about in technology and healthcare and providing
our patients with the highest quality care possible. As a group of professionals, we have strived to meet every new challenge with additional education, experience, skills training and certification. And perhaps nowhere has all of this been more obvious than in critical care nursing. Most would agree that patients whose illnesses pre-
viously required stays in critical care units now can be cared for on a variety of other units. As a result, those patients in critical care are sicker than ever and require more intensive care. From myocardial infarctions and cardiothoracic
surgery to trauma, respiratory failure and brain injury, critical care nurses in every specialty must be prepared to provide the most complex patient care. They need strong assessment and observation skills, current knowledge of medications and diagnostic test results, and honed tech- nology skills. They practice in countless settings and fill a variety of roles. In this specialty issue, we look at some of the important work they’re doing in facilities around the country. One of our features focuses
on interprofessional teamwork to improve outcomes related to critically ill patient immobility, and the other on how facili- ties are addressing verbal and physical abuse of ED nurses. For this
Nurse.com Special Edition magazine, some of our
critical care nurse readers partici- pated in a study. Some of the results of the study are featured in, “Critical care nursing profile. Howdo you measure up?” in this issue. To see the full profile of the typical criti- cal care nurse, visit
Nurse.com/Critical- Care-Profile. •
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NATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD
National Council State Boards of Nursing CEO Kathy Apple, MS, RN; National Association of His- panic Nurses Executive Director Celia Trigo Besore, MBA, CAE; National Black Nurses Association Executive Director Millicent Gorham, MBA; Association of PeriOperative Registered Nurses CEO Linda Groah, MS, RN, FAAN; The Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing’s Future Director
Andrea Higham; Emergency Nurses Association Executive Director SusanMHohenhaus, LPD, RN, CEN, FAEN; National Student Nurses Association Executive Director Diane J. Mancino, EdD, RN, CAE; CGFNS International, Inc. CEO Franklin A. Shaffer, EdD, RN, FAAN; American Organization of Nurse Executives CEO Pamela Thompson, MS, RN, FAAN; Sigma Theta Tau International CEO Patricia Thompson, EdD, RN, FAAN; American Association of Colleges of Nursing CEO Deborah E. Trautman, PhD, RN; American Nurses Association CEO MarlaWeston, PhD, RN.
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