Nurses’ Attitudes, Practices, and Barriers to Assessing Symptoms of Discomfort in Mechanically Ventilated Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study

Introduction Critically ill patients experience various stressful symptoms of discomfort, including dyspnea, pain, and sleep disruption. Notably, ventilated patients have difficulty self-reporting discomfort symptoms. Nurses need to assess discomfort symptoms to alleviate them, but limited research...

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Main Authors: Tomohiko Takahashi, Yusuke Oyama, Hideaki Sakuramoto, Mitsuhiro Tamoto, Tomoo Sato, Yuko Nanjo, Sayaka Hosoi, Takeshi Unoki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2024-04-01
Series:SAGE Open Nursing
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/23779608241245209

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