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Pain, agitation, and delirium guidelines: nurses' involvement in development and implementation
Judy E Davidson1, Chris Winkelman2, Céline Gélinas2
1Judy E. Davidson is evidence-based practice and research liaison at UCSD Health System, San Diego, California.Chris Winkelman is an associate professor at Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.Céline Gélinas is an assistant professor at Ingram School of Nursing, McGill University and a nurse scientist at Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada.Anna Dermenchyan is a clinical quality specialist at UCLA Health, Los Angeles, California. jdavidson@ucsd.edu.
Abstract:
The 2013 American College of Critical Care Medicine/Society of Critical Care Medicine clinical practice guidelines for the management of pain, agitation, and delirium in adult patients in the intensive care unit serves as a living example of nurses' involvement in the development and implementation of professional guidelines. Nurses who served on this guideline-writing panel describe their experiences. Specific examples from the pain, agitation, and delirium guidelines for care are used to explore the roles of the nurse leader, nurse informaticist, staff nurse, and nurse researcher in relationship to guideline implementation.
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