Impact of Intensive Care Unit Nurse Participation in Post - ICU Follow Up Clinic

Conditions

• Nurse Role
• Nurse-Patient Relations

Eligibility Criteria

Sex

ALL

Age

18 Years - N/A

Healthy Volunteers

Not accepted

Interventions

• Nurse Encounter Group — BEHAVIORAL
  Nurses in this group will meet with former ICU patients in a post ICU clinic visit. This will be a structured meeting for approximately 15 minutes with the nurse and former patient. The encounter will be observed by a member of the research team. Surveys will be completed before and after the visits. Additionally, nurses will be interviewed 4-7 days after meeting with their former patients.
• Nurse control group — OTHER
  This group will complete surveys.

Study Details

The objective of this study is to learn more about the impact of a longitudinal encounter between critical care nurses and former intensive care unit patients. This study will enroll 10 patients that had been admitted in an ICU to meet with a former nurse that had taken care of them in the ICU. The study will enroll 20 nurses that had taken care of these patients in the ICU. The study will randomize 10 nurses to be in the encounter group and 10 nurses to be assigned to the control group. Only nurses assigned to the encounter group will meet with the patients at their post-ICU clinic.

Key Dates

Start date

Feb 11, 2020

Status verified

Feb 2026

Primary completion

Feb 28, 2027

Completion

Feb 28, 2027

Study Design

Enrollment

30 participants (estimated)

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

OTHER

Arms

• Experimental: Nurse Encounter Group
  Nurses that are assigned to this group will be asked to take surveys before and immediately following the post-ICU clinic encounter with a patient that they had cared for in the ICU during a follow-up care visit with the former ICU - patient.
• Other: Nurse Control Group
  Nurses assigned to this group will only complete surveys and will not see a former patient in a post-ICU visit.

Primary Outcome Measure

Change in medical ICU nurse fulfillment toward the ICU following an encounter with a former ICU patient in the post-ICU clinic using an adapted Stanford Professional Fulfillment Index [ Time Frame: Baseline, at the follow-up ICU clinic visit for the encounter group (approximately 2-4 weeks after discharge) ]

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