Intensive care nurse practitioners in Australia: A description of a service model in an adult tertiary intensive care unit

Although well-established internationally, nurse practitioners (NPs) in Australian adult intensive care units (ICUs) are rare. Australian literature clearly highlights the importance of creating ICU NP roles to meet emerging demands. An ICU NP model of care at a metropolitan hospital in Sydney  provides care in four core practice areas: complex case management, vascular access, tracheostomy management, and intrahospital transport of critically ill patients. The ICU NPs also provide training and assessment for ICU nurses and medical officers in these same core practice areas and can effi ciently meet service gaps in crisis such as the most recent COVID-19 pandemic.
Source: Australian Critical Care - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: Research paper Source Type: research