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

University of Michigan

Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Nurse-Patient Relations; Nurse Role

Treatments: Other: Nurse control group; Behavioral: Nurse Encounter Group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04243356

HUM00170939

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 30 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Patients:

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients that were admitted to the ICU that are appropriate for follow-up.

Nurses:

Inclusion Criteria:

• Registered nurse in an intensive care unit and took care of the enrolled patient

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

Nurse Encounter Group

Experimental group

Description:

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.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Nurse Encounter Group

Nurse Control Group

Other group

Description:

Nurses assigned to this group will only complete surveys and will not see a former patient in a post-ICU visit.

Treatment:

Other: Nurse control group