title: A strategy for decreasing anxiety of ICU transfer patients and their families.
abstract: With the growing number of clients transferred out of the intensive care units (ICUs) following increasingly shorter stays, time constraints have become a barrier to effective teaching. Written information that is readily available to clients helps resolve this problem. A pamphlet (in Spanish and English) was developed to ease the move for patients, families, and critical care and medical nurses from a medical ICU (MICU) to a general floor.
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Maillet
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Pata
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Grossman
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety / Q000451:nursing / Q000517:prevention & control*; D003422:Critical Care / Q000523:psychology*; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D010174:Pamphlets; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010360:Patient Transfer