Pediatric Critical Care Nursing Research Priorities-Initiating International Dialogue

Lyvonne N Tume1, Minette Coetzee, Karen Dryden-Palmer

  • 11PICU and Children's Nursing Research Unit, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom. 2School of Health, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom. 3Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. 4PICU, Critical Care Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 5Department of Child Health Evaluative Sciences, Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 6Department of Cardiovascular and Critical Care Services, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA. 7Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. 8Department of Nursing Research, The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. 9School of Health Sciences and the Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. 10School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, Plymouth University, Plymouth, United Kingdom. 11School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia. 12Department of Pediatric Nursing, Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. 13Division of Pediatric Critical Care, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL. 14School of Nursing and the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

Summary

Pediatric critical care nurses identified and prioritized 27 research questions to advance nursing science. Top priorities include end-of-life care, family psychosocial impact, and nursing competencies for preventing crises.

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