剑桥医学英语 Lesson 7-Supplementary Text (Critical Care Nursing)

Critical Care Nursing

Critical care nursing is the field of nursing  with a focus on the utmost care of the critically ill or unstable patients following extensive injury, surgery or life threatening diseases. Critical care nurses can be found working in a wide variety of environments and specialties, such as medical intensive care units, surgical intensive care units, cardiothoracic intensive care units, burns unit, pediatrics and some trauma center emergency departments.

Critical care nurses,also known as ICU nurses,are specialty nurses; because of this, they require more in depth and specialized training than regularregistered nurses do. They treat patients who are acutely ill and unstable requiring more frequent nursing assessments and the utilization of life sustaining technology and drugs.

No matter their specialty, all nurses must be able to build trusting relationships with their patients. When the nurses develop strong relationships between their patients,they are able to obtain important information about them that may be helpful to diagnosing them. Also, family members that become involved in this relationship make it easier for the nurses to build these trusting relationships with the patients because the family members could ease any stress that could lead the patient to be timid. When a patient has a long-term illness, the good relationships built between the nurse and patient can improve the patient's quality of life.