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Follow up visits to an ICU: Critical care nurses’ experiences Åsa Engström, Siv Söderberg, Sweden

Email: asa.engstrom@ltu.se

Background. The critical illness experience affects the ill person and their close relatives not only during the stay in an intensive care unit, but also for a long time afterwards. Follow-up visits were introduced in order to offer people the opportunity to talk about their experiences. This activity has not been studied earlier from the perspective of critical care nurses.

Aim. The aim of this study was to describe critical care nurses’ experiences of follow-up visits for formerly critically ill people discharged from an ICU and their close relatives. Method. Eight critical care nurses narrated their experiences of follow-up visits by formerly critically ill people and their close relatives to an intensive care unit. Data were collected during 2007 and 2008. Qualitative thematic content analysis was applied to the interview texts.

Findings. The findings show that in order to feel they were doing a good job it was vital for the critical care nurses to be well prepared for the follow-up visits. It was difficult, in a positive way, to recognize formerly critically ill people when they returned looking healthy. The critical care nurses felt it was valuable for them to receive feedback about the care given in form of follow-up visits.

Conclusion. Receiving feedback about one’s work from follow-up visits gives critical care nurses the possibility to evaluate given care. Follow-up visits to intensive care units provide them with valuable knowledge that might lead to improved care.

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