In today’s world, it is quite easy and normal for people to respect and be nice to someone who has power, who is strong and independent. However, being respectful and nice to people who are vulnerable, sick, and dependent is not for everyone.

Nurses, however, play this great role of respecting, being kind d helping the vulnerable ones, especially in ICUs.

If you have ever been in an ICU, you may have witnessed the nurses working there. These nurses are highly professional and specialized; they are totally a different breed.

In such a hectic environment under a lot of pressure, they provide patient-centered care. They see the people in ICUs not as patients but as a person who has family, friends, life aim and hobbies, etc.

The ICU Nurses:

Call them ICU nurses or critical care nurses; their role is to provide high-intensity nursing care to the patients. These nurses are responsible for providing patient direct care to patients that are in life-threatening situations. They serve the patients admitted in Intensive care units or better known as ICUs.

The patients they take care of are usually in unstable or critical clinical situations. These nurses managed and coordinate the nursing care through an in-depth and ongoing assessment, therapies, and high-intensity intervention.

These nurses also takes crucial clinical decisions in the ICUs that are based on the

What do these nurses do?

These nurses are equipped with advanced skills and knowledge that enable them to undertake technical-scientific interventions. They plan the healthcare assistance for the patient through scientifically validated tools.

They also tend to identify, analyze calculate and treat the risks to care provision by systematically evaluating healthcare outcomes. Despite working in a very critical environment, they ensure that their every action is based on continued education and evidence.

This is necessary for ensuring a safe and quality treatment.

What are some of the common conditions these nurses treat?

The context of the patients they care for determines a lot about their experience as a nurse. From the moms in labor, aged people in hospice to a kid with a broken leg, they may serve all. Even if the ward is the same; the patients there can be different. Below are the few most common conditions the nurses treat in the ICUs:

Post-Operative Condition:

The most common type of patients you will find in an ICU is these ones. These are the patients that have undergone open-heart surgery. Or the ones that have undergone an organ transplant. Nonetheless, these are the patients that need the closest monitoring and patient-centered direct care during their recovery.

Trauma:

Some patients are also transferred into the emergency rooms after they have had an accident, assault, or shooting. They may have multiple complications that can include traumatic brain, injuries or shock. This makes them eligible of receiving high-intensity nursing care.

Cancer:

Cancer patients are also treated in this ward. These patients need to be admitted for recovering after intensive chemotherapy, transplant surgery, or even unexpected infections.

Ruptured Brain Aneurysm:

You may think like controlling a patient’s blood pressure is rather a simple task, because, well, it’s normal these days?

But controlling blood pressure is not as simple. In cases of high blood pressure, even the slightest fluctuation can cause bleeding.

Infection:

Infection outbreaks can be lethal. Dangerous infections for example sepsis have the tendency of causing a variety of life-threatening complications.

And thus these require an extremely sanitary and closely monitoring environment for recovering from these infections. And ICUs have exactly this kind of environment.

Stroke:

The patients suffering from strokes also require patient-centered closely monitoring care, diagnostic imaging, and physical therapy.