Only dad and mom can enter
Hola a todos, mis queridos amigos. A couple of weeks ago I received an email from Lic. Mª Isabel Morales, a pediatric and neonatal intensive care nurse. She is Venezuelan, but lives and works in [...]
First data: Current situation of Humanization of my ICU.
Hola a todos, mis queridos amigos.As you know, yesterday we published a small form to test the current situation of humanization of our ICU, to take a first photography of how we are now for [...]
Current situation of humanization of my ICU
Hola a todos, mis queridos amigos. As you know, we are nearly to publish the whole document Humanization Plan of the ICU of the Community of Madrid , which is a recommendations tool to humanize [...]
Give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s
Hola a todos, mis queridos amigos.From 41 French ICU (network FAMIREA) a new tool is proposed to assess relatives’ experience of dying and death in the ICU. The hypothesis: to know their experience will allow [...]
All in one. By Mónica Ferrero
I have never thought it before. It was after attending to the #2JHUCI where I participated in Module 2: Technology, structure and humanization: are compatibles?. And my respond is YES, for sure.And it also begins [...]
Family presence during ICU procedures. By Bárbara Salas
Annals of American Thoracic Society has just published in July a very interesting article on the presence of family members during Intensive Care Unit (ICU) procedures. Its authors (physicians, nurses and members of the ICU [...]
A call for action against burnout syndrome
Recently, four american scientific societies of Intensive Care Medicine, have launched a call for action about the burnout syndrome (BOS) of the ICU professionals. The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, the American College of Chest [...]
It could happen to anyone. By Aroa López
To be health care professional (in my case, a nurse) and at the same time a critically ill patient is hard. To see the faces of teammates to attend you, monitors, techniques that are practicing [...]
Show me you love me…by José Carlos Igeño
When I was doing my training on Intensive Care Medicine, already nearing the end of the specialty, I had the honour to do the farewell speech after that five years. I recently found that speech. [...]
WONDER: September 24th, TEDxValladolid 2016
Hola a tod@s, mis queridos amigos.Don´t miss one of the events of the year: September 24th, Saturday at LAVA – Laboratorio de las Artes de Valladolid.TEDxValladolid comes back. As you can remember, they gave us the [...]