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Follow-up visit in an ICU: receiving a sense of coherence
Åsa Engström1, Katarina Rogmalm2, Lisa Marklund3
1Associate Professor, Division of Nursing, Department of Health Science, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden.
Aim:
To describe patients' experiences of a follow-up visit to an intensive care unit (ICU) after being critically ill and nursed there.
Background:
Knowledge about the follow-up visit needs to be developed, with the previously critically ill patient in focus.
Design:
Qualitative descriptive.
Method:
Semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine patients and analysed using qualitative content analysis. The data collection occurred during spring 2014.
Findings:
During the follow-up visits in ICU, the relatives, the patient diary, and those who took part in the care contribute to fill memory gaps to create a picture and an explanation of the care period.
Conclusion:
The follow-up visit is an important tool in the patients' struggle to create a context and coherence from a missing or unreal time. The patient diary is essential to subsequently be able to relate to the period of care.
Relevance To Clinical Practice:
The follow-up visit, together with a personal diary, after an ICU stay could be seen as significant for strengthening the patients' feeling of coherence and better health.
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