Optimizing the role of nurses in critical care in weaning patients from the ventilator : a multiple-case study
December 9, 2024
Abstract:
Background:
Prolonged mechanical ventilation is harmful for patients requiring prompt weaning approaches from an interprofessional team with different and overlapping scopes of practice. Nurses play a key role in interprofessional teams, and optimization of their role can reduce the duration of mechanical ventilation.
Purpose: To understand the role of nurses in critical care in healthcare teams when weaning patients from mechanical ventilation.
Methods: Multiple-case study with concurrent mixed methods data collection was conducted in two critical care units following a pilot study in Québec,
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