Purpose: The purpose was to explore the experiences of nurses caring for patients with delirium in ICU in China. Methods: Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with 14 ICU nurses in Beijing, China. Audio recordings of the transcripts were coded and analysed thematically. Results: The emergent themes reflected clearly similar experiences and were titled as follows: Internal and external barriers to care; Care burden: workload, psychological pressure and injury; Dilemmas in decision-making: balancing risks and benefits. Conclusions: The results of this qualitative study have provided a rich description of the perceptions of a sample of nurses caring for patients with dementia in Beijing. Clearly, the nurses suffered from their work experiences in several aspects: they lacked the knowledge and skills required assessing and managing the patients as early as possible; they were physically and psychologically stressed while looking after the patients and faced with dilemmas and compromises in their decision-making. Copyright (C) 2015, Chinese Nursing Association. Production and hosting by Elsevier (Singapore) Pte Ltd.
基金：
the Capital Foundation of Traditional Medicine and Nursing Research (approval number: 10ZYH14).
Funding Project for Academic Human Resources Development in Institutions of Higher Learning under the Jurisdiction of Beijing Municipality (PHR201107114)
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外文
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无
最新[2023]版：
大类|3 区医学
小类|2 区护理
第一作者：
第一作者机构：[a]School of Nursing, China Capital Medical University, China
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通讯机构：[a]School of Nursing, China Capital Medical University, China
推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714)：
Peng Yue,Ling Wang,Chang Liu,et al.A qualitative study on experience of nurses caring for patients with delirium in ICUs in China: Barriers, burdens and decision making dilemmas[J].INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING SCIENCES.2015,2(1):doi:10.1016/j.ijnss.2015.01.014.
APA：
Peng Yue,Ling Wang,Chang Liu&Ying Wu.(2015).A qualitative study on experience of nurses caring for patients with delirium in ICUs in China: Barriers, burdens and decision making dilemmas.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING SCIENCES,2,(1)
MLA：
Peng Yue,et al."A qualitative study on experience of nurses caring for patients with delirium in ICUs in China: Barriers, burdens and decision making dilemmas".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING SCIENCES 2..1(2015)
