Improving ICU-to-Ward Patient Transitions: Insights and Challenges
The article is about to gain understanding of the patient experience for transitioning them from ICU to general ward care in healthcare organisations. Special search terms and frameworks have been used to present the situation and common operational tasks of healthcare organisations such as setting, perspective, interest, comparison and evaluation. Eligibility criteria have been measured within the article by observing the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The investigation is based on a purpose of identifying primary qualitative research design or mixed methods studies. Articles have been reviewed by identifying study aim, setting, participants, design, themes and findings, strengths and limitations, and relevance. Overall findings of this review are able to gain insight of the transition of ICU to ward and an improvement in physiological condition. However, the review of all the articles have indicated that lack of information, inadequate communication and preparation can contribute to the state of fear, anxiety and mentally depression.
The findings have revealed that psychological conditions are common among the survivors of intensive care. Monitoring, equipment, physical environment, models of care, staffing, and expectations often become significant as described in the article (Shore et al. 2018). The article has presented these things as the reasons for feeling anxious and unsafe. The article has focused on such things which have been considered as vital for healthcare and patient improvement such as knowledge, information, effective communication and ward environment. The transition of ICU to ward patients becomes a significant part of healthcare organisations due to its acceptance of communication (Cuzco et al. 2022). Focusing on numerous challenges to patients and healthcare workers is strength of this article as it outlines inadequate information, poor preparation and ineffective communication as the basic factors of emotive transition, stressful position and clinical environment. However, the article is lacking information regarding multimodal information sources, pre-transfer ward visits. Therefore, further research is required to implement and assess transitional care practices.
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