Intensive Care Nurses’ Views and Practices for Eye Care: An International Comparison

Elem Kocaçal Güler, İsmet Eşer and Imad Hussein Deeb Fashafsheh

Clinical Nursing Research, 2017, vol. 26, issue 4, 504-524

Abstract: Eye care is an important area of critical care. However, lack of eye care studies is a common issue across the globe. The aim of this study is to determine the views and practices of intensive care unit (ICU) nurses on eye care in Turkey and Palestine. This descriptive study was conducted using a self-administrated questionnaire. The data were collected from 111 nurses in nine kinds of ICUs in two education hospital. Normal saline (75.9%) was the most commonly reported solution for eye hygiene among the Palestinian nurses, and gauze soaked in normal saline or sterile water (64.3%) were the most frequently used supplies by the Turkish nurses. Although both Palestinian and Turkish ICU nurses took some precautions to prevent eye complications in critical patients, there were some gaps and insufficiencies in the eye care of ICU patients. There is a need for continuing training in this area.

Keywords: critical care; eye care; intensive care patient; nursing care; survey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1177/1054773816631471

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