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Intensive and Critical Care Nursing Volume Contents (Volume 17 2001) Editorial Carol Ball A tribute to Pat Ashworth, founding Editor of Intensive and Critical Care Nursing Alex Mathieson Psychological recovery following ICU: experiences and influences upon discharge to the community Marie Maddox, Sandra V. Dunn and Leigh E. Pretty intensive Care Nursing scoring System. Part 2: Nursing interventions and nursing outcomes Anita Pyykk6, Jouko Laurila, Tero |. Ala-Kokko, Maija Hentinen Communication between nurse and patient during ventilator treatment: patient reports and RN evaluations Grazina Wojnicki-Johansson The perceived learning needs of paediatric intensive care nurses caring for children requiring haemofiltration Geri Sefton, Mike farrell and jane Noyes = Systematic reviews of nursing research David Evans 58 Drug therapy review: Stress ulcer prevention — the controversy continues Caroline Bradley 61 Chest-X-ray quiz Marea Reading 63 Notices 65 Editorial: Defining the nursing contribution in critical care Carol Ball 67 RCN Critical Care Forum: News and Issues Deborah Dawson, Mavis Spencer 72 Clinical signs of ICU syndrome/delirium: an observational study Anetth Granberg-Axell, Ingegerd Bergbom and Dag Lundberg LB CHURCHILL — LIVINGSTONE A Harcourt Health Sciences Company Volume Contents Clinical guidelines for the use of the prone position in acute respiratory distress syndrome Carol Ball, Judith Adams, Sarah Boyce and Penny Robinson Supporting ward staff in acute care areas: expanding the service Susan Haines and Sharon Coad Writing academic papers: a guide for prospective authors R. Newell Drug therapy review: Erythromycin as a gastrointestinal prokinetic agent Caroline Bradley Book Reviews Chest X-ray quiz Marea Reading Notices Editorial: Patient: nurse ratios in critical care - time for some radical thinking Carol Ball The influence of focus group-oriented supervision on intensive care nurses’ reflections on family members’ needs Inger Lantz and Elisabeth Severinsson Transfer anxiety: preparing to leave intensive care Maria A. Coyle Maintaining patient dignity in intensive care settings Christopher Turnock and Michael Kelleher Update on the pathology of AIDS Sebastian Lucas Nurse-led weaning from mechanical ventilation: where’s the evidence? Ann M. Price Drug therapy review: Activated protein C in severe sepsis Caroline Bradley Chest X-ray quiz Marea Reading Book reviews Notices Editorial: Severity of illness - an important concept for critical care nursing? Margaret coulter RCN Critical Care Forum: News and Issues Bernadette O’ Riordan, Rachel Binks, Julie Scholes & Ruth Endacott, Susan Reynolds & Maureen Coombs, Tim Collins, Diana Kingstom, and Lindsay Stewart From unit to unit: Danish nurses’ experiences of transfer of a small child to and from an intensive care unit Elisabeth O. C. Hall The meaning of social support for the critically ill patient Judith E. Hupcey Volume Contents Nurses’ Knowledge and attitudes about antibiotic therapy in critical care Cindy L. Munro and Mary Jp Grap Caregivers of ICU patients discharged home: What burden do they face? Patricia Johnson, Wendy Chaboyer, Michelle Foster and Roslyn van der Vooren Dissonant imperatives in nursing: a conceptualization of strees in intensive care in sweden Agneta Crongqvist, Téres Theroell, Tom Burns and Kim Lutzén Comprehensive critical care education is critical to success Wendy Walker Drug therapy review: Steroids in sepsis - more effective than activated protein C? Chest X-ray quiz Marea Reading Notices Editorial: Hospital-acquired bacteraemia-surveillance and guidelines for practice Carol Ball RCN Critical Care Forum: News and Issues Bernadette O’Riordan, Mavis Spencer, Maree Barnett, Mandy O’ Dell and Bob Winter No going back: narratives by close relatives of the braindead patient Ingvar Frid, Ingegerd Bergbom and Hengo Haljamde The effects of music intervention on anxiety in the patient waiting for cardiac catheterization Wallace J. Hamel Does extubation result in haemodynamic instability in patients following coronary artery bypass grafts? Helen Walthall, Steve Ray and Desiree Robson Perceptions and experiences of primary nursing in an ICU: a combined methods approach Deborah Goode and Kathy Rowe Drug therapy review: Crystalloid, colloid or small volume resuscitation? Caroline Bradley Book reviews Chest X-ray quiz Marea Reading Erratum Notices Editorial: Extension of nurse prescribing — is there a case for nurse prescribing in critical care? Deborah Dawson Nicotine replacement therapy for smokers admitted to intensive care Tom D. Honisett Cost analysis and estimation of thoracic surgical patients with lung cancer in Greece: the case of Sotiria ICU Anthony Leftakis and Mary Geitona Volume Contents Nursing the ARDS patient in the prone postion: the experience of qualified ICU nurses Joanna McCormick and Bronagh Blackwood Staff empowerment in Finnish intensive care units T. Suominen, H. Leino-Kilpi, M. Merja, D. Irvine Doran and P. Puukka Factors influencing the turnover of intensive care nurses Simon Cartledge Level of dyspnoea experienced in mechanically ventilated adults with and without saline instillation prior to endotracheal suctioning Pamela V. O’Neal, Mary J.Grap, Carol Thompson and William Dudley Drug therapy review: Clopidogrel - a myocardial infarction CURE? 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