Issues of daily ICU nursing care : safety, nutrition and sedation

Thesis

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Stellingen

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Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The risk of nursing in an error prone environment

Chapter 3 The critical nursing situation index for safety assessment in Intensive Care

Chapter 4 The quality of Intensive Care nursing before, during and after the introduction of nurses without ICU-training

Chapter 5 Daily enteral feeding practice on the ICU: attainment of goals and interfering factors

Chapter 6 Bacterial contamination of ready-to-use 1-L feeding bottles and administration sets in severely compromised intensive care patients

Chapter 7 Bacterial safety of enteral feeding on the intensive care

Chapter 8 The reliability and validity of a new and simple method to measure sedation levels in Intensive Care patients

Chapter 9 The ability of the Bispectral index to predict wake-up time following cessation of sedatives in critically ill patients

Chapter 10 Summary and closing remarks

Samenvatting

Dankwoord

List of publications

Appendix

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