title: Applying personal reflective critical incident reviews in critical care.
abstract: Critical care nurses can use the personal reflective critical incident review to subjectively relate common experiences relating to crisis and then devise nursing strategies to help alleviate it. This review article, related to a current situation on an intensive care unit, helps the nurse cope with the stress of the unit. Critical care nurses must react to situations that affect everyone, including themselves. Analyzing their own reactions during a crisis situation helps nurses to accomplish this goal.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, D'Youville College, Buffalo, New York 14201, USa. ihlenfjt@dyc.edu
authors.forename: Janet T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Ihlenfeld
mesh_terms: D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D003419:Crisis Intervention / Q000379:methods; D003422:Critical Care / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D009736:Nursing Process; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*