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11. Uluslararası Sağlıkta Kalite, Akreditasyon ve Hasta Güvenliği Kongresi, Antalya, Turkey, 26 - 29 April 2017, pp.32, (Full Text)
ABSTRACT
Aim: Taking the views of the patients about the intensive care setting is the basis for providing a healing intensive care environment. The study was conducted with the aim of examining the opinions of the patients who stay in thoracic surgery intensive care unit about the intensive care environment.
Study Design: The study was performed descriptively with 100 patients in a thoracic intensive care unit of a university hospital.
Material and Methods: Patients were included in the sampling group who were at least 24 hours in the intensive care unit and who were able to understand and answer questions and who were extubated within two or four hours in the postoperative period. The purpose of the study was to determine the opinions of the patients about the intensive care environment and "Patient Opinion Form for the Intensive Care Environment" was used.
Results: The average age of the patients participating in the study is 49 ± 16, the average number of stay of days in intensive care unit is 3 days. Most of the patients noted that the level of illumination and ambient temperature were normal (88%), and the sound level was not disturbing (86%). Nearly all of the patients (96%) were wondering about the family and 66% of them stated that they wanted to stay with their family members. Most of the patients stated that they could easily say the problems to nurses (97%) and doctors (77%). 96% of the patients stated that their privacy was respected in the intensive care unit.
Conclusion: The results of the study showed that patients have positive opinions about the intensive care setting.