Heather Baid

Heather Baid
University of Brighton · School of Sport and Health Sciences

BSN PGCHSCE PGCert MSc PHD

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The European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) Green Paper aims to address the challenge of environmental sustainability in intensive care and proposes actionable strategies for integrating sustainability into intensive care unit (ICU) stakeholder actions. The ESICM Executive Committee appointed a task force of topic experts and ESICM comm...
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Healthcare creates a significantly sizeable environmental footprint, worsening the climate crisis, polluting air, soil and water, damaging biodiversity and causing ecological damage. Planetary health and public health are interlinked and healthcare professionals in all roles, including orthopaedics and trauma, have a role to play in improving the e...
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Background Education is a social tipping intervention necessary for stabilising the earth's climate by 2050. Integrating sustainable healthcare into healthcare professions curricula is a key action to raise awareness. Objectives This study aimed to: i) investigate nursing students' attitudes towards and awareness of climate change and sustainabili...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has tested the very elements of human factors and ergonomics (HFE) to their maximum. HFE is an established scientific discipline that studies the interrelationship between humans, equipment, and the work environment. HFE includes situation awareness, decision making, communication, team working, leadership, managing stress, an...
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Background: Sustaining high-quality, critical care practice is challenging because of current limits to financial, environmental, and social resources. The National Health Service in England intends to be more sustainable, although there is minimal research into what sustainability means to people working in critical care, and a theoretical framew...
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The National Health Service (NHS) in England is facing resource management challenges. There are NHS initiatives promoting sustainability of resources, although minimal research exists about frontline practitioners' understanding of and concerns about sustainability issues. This research focused on critical care because it uses a large amount of NH...
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This chapter reviews the range of therapies available to support and maintain lung function. After a summary of respiratory physiology, factors that affect the patient’s work of breathing and lung compliance are discussed, and ventilation/perfusion mismatch and respiratory failure are described. The indications, risks, and modes of delivery of oxyg...
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Emergency situations may occur more frequently in critical care than in other hospital departments, so the critical care nurse must have a knowledge of the prompt and effective management of common emergency situations. This chapter reviews the indicators, causes, management, and treatment of cardiac arrest, and describes recent changes to the adva...
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This chapter focuses on assessment of respiratory function in the critical care patient, and the management of common respiratory disorders, including pneumonia, pleural effusion, pneumothorax, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pulmonary oedema, pulmonary embolism, tuberculosis, interstitial lung disease, and acute respiratory distress...
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Patients with traumatic injury may present to the critical care unit with a wide range of actual and potential clinical problems. This chapter reviews a trauma-specific approach for the critical care nursing assessment and management of trauma, including primary, secondary, and tertiary surveys. The resuscitation of the patient with traumatic haemo...
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This chapter describes the principles of conducting a bedside assessment of a critical care patient. This assessment is an essential nursing skill that integrates knowledge of history taking and physical assessment. The ABCDE approach and head-to-toe assessment of the critically ill patient are described in detail, along with critical-care-specific...
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Metabolic disorders may trigger admission to critical care or may occur during an episode of critical care. Diabetes mellitus is the most common metabolic disorder, and the number of patients admitted to hospital with complications relating to diabetes mellitus looks set to increase. This chapter describes in detail the assessment and management of...
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Most critically ill patients require complex cardiac monitoring while receiving critical care. This chapter reviews the most commonly used monitoring systems and devices. It describes the use of continuous electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring, including 12-lead ECG monitoring, and has a useful section on troubleshooting ECG recordings. Blood pressure...
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Cardiac instability is common in critically ill patients, and there are a myriad reasons for this instability. This chapter begins with a discussion of cardiovascular assessment and monitoring, and then explores the management of patients with hypotension and hypertension, and considers the different forms of shock that may occur in critically ill...
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This chapter reviews the most common reasons for admitting pregnant women to critical care, the specific monitoring requirements of this patient group, and the indications for early Caesarean section. The definition, assessment, management, and complications of pre-eclampsia, eclampsia, HELPP syndrome, postpartum haemorrhage, and amniotic fluid emb...
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The safe transfer of critical care patients may be required for a range of reasons, including diagnostics, treatment, repatriation, or staffing and resourcing needs. This chapter considers both intra-hospital and inter-hospital transfers, and includes the most recent recommendations from the Intensive Care Society. The risks of transferring critica...
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This chapter considers the assessment and management of patients with neurological conditions. Neurological assessment is reviewed and abnormalities associated with neurological assessment are highlighted. Consideration is given to neurological conditions that may require care in a specialized critical care unit, such as traumatic brain injury and...
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The gastrointestinal assessment of the critically ill patient is described, including health history, physical assessment, and laboratory investigations. Gastrointestinal monitoring is discussed with reference to gastric residual assessment and intra-abdominal pressure monitoring, Critical care nursing interventions for gastrointestinal disorders c...
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Not all patients will survive admission to critical care, and this chapter highlights end-of-life issues that will be encountered in this care setting. Recognition of the end of life, and decision making related to end-of-life care are discussed alongside issues pertaining to advance care planning. There is a focus on the individualized care requir...
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There have been significant changes in the management of the critically ill adult throughout the NHS over the past two decades. This chapter reviews the changes that have had an impact on the delivery of critical care, including initiatives designed to prevent admissions to critical care units, such as outreach teams and medical emergency teams. Th...
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There are a number of core topics that are central to the generic nursing care of critically ill patients. This chapter covers such fundamental critical care nursing topics as care bundles, infection prevention, fluid management, enteral and parenteral nutrition, anxiety and pain management, sedation, pharmacological paralysis, neuromuscular blocka...
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Safe and high quality health care is underpinned by health care professionals possessing the knowledge, skills and professional attributes which are necessary for their specific clinical speciality and area of practice. Education is crucial as it enables clinicians to learn and put into practice their specialist knowledge, skills and attributes. Th...
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The objective structured clinical examination is commonly referred to as an 'OSCE' and is a way of assessing a student's competency with clinical skills. The OSCE involves the student demonstrating a skill during a simulated clinical situation in a controlled environment instead of using real patients in the practice setting. Post-registered nursin...
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Education that captures the attention of students is an essential aspect of promoting meaningful, active learning. Rather than standing at the front of a group of learners simply speaking about a topic, teachers have the opportunity of livening up their teaching with humour, games, and other fun activities. This article critically evaluates the ben...
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Auscultation (listening for bowel sounds) is part of an abdominal physical assessment and is performed to determine whether normal bowel sounds are present. This article evaluates the technique involved in listening for bowel sounds and the significance of both normal and abnormal auscultation findings. Review of the relevant literature reveals con...
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This article describes an initiative by an NHS trust to support its district nurses in developing and using physical examination skills as part of patient assessment. The article outlines the process and suggests that the initiative is important to help meet the needs of older patients with long-term conditions.
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Differential diagnosis has become a key element of advanced nursing roles that are incorporating history taking and physical assessment into their remit of professional responsibilities. The aim of this article is to review the relevant definitions of different types of diagnoses, to describe the process of formulating a differential diagnosis incl...
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Physical assessment is a new responsibility for many nurses in the UK who are expanding their parameters of advanced clinical practice. A physical assessment framework can be used by both community and acute care nurses as a guide to the process of conducting a physical assessment. The framework presented here consists of the following sequence of...

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