title: Optimizing safe, comfortable ICU care through multi-professional quality improvement: just DO it.
abstract: Translating research to the bedside can present significant challenges in the complex ICU environment. In this issue of Critical Care, de Jong and colleagues report on a quality improvement project (NURSE-DO) that led to a decrease in severe pain and serious adverse events during nursing care procedures in their ICU. In this commentary we describe three aspects of this quality improvement study that we think contributed to the overall success of the NURSE-DO project: the hospital environment and culture; multi-professional partnerships; and an evidence-based structured approach.
authors: Alison J
authors: AJ
authors: Montpetit
authors: Curtis N
authors: CN
authors: Sessler
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D008297:Male; D055805:Moving and Lifting Patients / Q000379:methods*; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000379:methods*; D010146:Pain / Q000517:prevention & control*; D059408:Pain Management / Q000379:methods*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index
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