Intensive and Critical Care Nursing

🎉 Proud Moment Alert! 🎉

Congratulations to Faisal Alanazi, Sam Lapkin, Luke Molloy,
and Jenny Sim for being awarded the prestigious ICCN Scholarly Impact Certificate! 🏅 Published in 2023, this outstanding work is among the top 10% of most cited articles in the journal!!

Impact of acoustic environment in intensive care unit on nurses’ well-being during COVID-19: A qualitative interview study

This study highlights the potential risk of physical and mental well-being among ICU nurses.

💡https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iccn.2025.104189

The visitors’ book (VB) as a family-centered care tool: A corpus-based, multi-site study on the implementation of a narrative care practice in ICU. The VB is a sustainable and potentially effective tool for enacting patient & family-centered care. 💡https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iccn.2025.104188

Model establishment based on clinical data from patient monitors: Optimising night-time alarms in intensive care units
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🏅 Recognizing excellence: launch of the ICCN Scholarly Impact Certificate

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The impact of the PICU diary on post-intensive care syndrome in children and their parents: A pilot randomized controlled trial

PICU diaries emerged as a promising family-centered support tool. Larger studies could establish their effectiveness on psychological outcomes.
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🎯 Setting critical care Research Agendas: A new article type in ICCN

We are pleased to introduce a pioneering article type in Intensive & Critical Care Nursing — “Research Agendas in Critical Care”!

More info can be found in our Editorial: authors.elsevier.com/a/1la4Z3RG-M...

Stakeholder perspectives on the reduction of opioid exposure in ICU: A modified Delphi survey
💡https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iccn.2025.104089

🎉 Exciting News from ICCN! 🎉

Key Highlights:
📢 Q1 journal (#3/193) in the JCR Nursing category!
📢 Newly ranked in the Critical Care Medicine category (#8/62)!

Thank you to our authors, reviewers, and readers for your ongoing support in making ICCN a premier platform for advancing nursing science.

Should influenza and COVID-19 vaccination be mandatory for ICU healthcare workers?

A timely and important question is now addressed from both perspectives in a new pair of ‘CONTROVERSY’ articles published in Intensive and Critical Care Nursing.

📢 Author Spotlight: Dr. Nazmul Islam
PhD Candidate & Research Coordinator, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Canada
💡 Check out Dr. Nazmul Islam's article published in ICCN doi.org/10.1016/j.ic...

Diagnostic accuracy of rapid shallow breathing index based on diaphragm ultrasound predicting successful weaning from mechanical ventilation: A systematic review and meta-analysis
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📢 Author Spotlight: Chen Yunxia
Head Nurse of the Neurology ICU, Henan Provincial People's Hospital / Zhengzhou University People's Hospital, China.
💡 Check out Yunxia's article published in ICCN doi.org/10.1016/j.ic...

Check out our 💡 Controversies articles published in ICCN - Do we still need central venous pressure monitoring in the ICU?

Let us know what you think?

📢 Author Spotlight: Ifa Hafifah, MN, RN, PhD (Cand.)
💡 Check out Ifa's article published in ICCN: "Factors associated with good death for end-of-life patients in the intensive care unit based on nurses’ perspectives: A systematic review." doi.org/10.1016/j.ic...

The effects of structured family auditory stimulation on preventing ICU delirium among patients with unplanned admissions: A randomized controlled study doi.org/10.1016/j.ic...

📢 Author Spotlight: Dr Amy Freeman-Sanderson
💡 Check out Dr. Freeman-Sanderson's Current Insights article published in ICCN: Communication with the critically ill patient: A nexus between patient needs, communication partner skills and the ICU environment. doi.org/10.1016/j.ic...

Comparative analysis of fully automated vs. conventional ventilation in postoperative cardiac surgery patients: Impact on alarms, interventions, and nurse acceptance doi.org/10.1016/j.ic...

Exploring ‘family’ in paediatric intensive care family-centred-care research: A concept analysis Family-Centred Care (FCC) is a cornerstone of Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) care. While FCC is well defined, debate exists as to how ‘family’ …

Absolutely thrilled to share my latest publication, exploring the concept of family in #PICU #FCC research.

An important milestone as the first publication from the #Siblings in #PedsICU International Research Interest Group too!

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