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PubMed2026

Time Heals Some Wounds? Burnout but Not Secondary Traumatic Stress in Critical Care Nurses.

BACKGROUND: Burnout among new nurses has been widely documented. Less is known about how years of professional experience relate to distinct components of professional quality of life, including compassion satisfaction and secondary traumatic stress. Early-career nurses appear particularly vulnerable to occupational strain, warranting examination of how years of experience may influence perceptions of professional well-being. OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between years of nursing experience and professional quality of life among critical care nurses. METHODS: A quantitative, cross-sectional pilot study was conducted using the Professional Quality of Life scale. A convenience sample of 55 nurses were recruited and consented from a rural hospital in the western United States. Descriptive statistics and Pearson correlations were used to examine relationships between years of experience and scores on the instrument's subscales. RESULTS: Forty nurses provided complete survey responses. Years of nursing experience correlated positively with compassion satisfaction and negatively with burnout. No significant relationship was found between years of experience and secondary traumatic stress. CONCLUSIONS: Greater professional experience was associated with higher compassion satisfaction and lower burnout but not with secondary traumatic stress. These findings suggest that experience may buffer against cumulative occupational strain, whereas trauma-related stress responses may persist across career stages. Structured mentoring and transition support may help to mitigate burnout among early-career nurses, and trauma-informed leadership approaches may warrant consideration in high-acuity environments.

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Teaching Engagement and Caregiving Help in the Intensive Care Unit (TEACH-ICU) Scale: Content Validity.

BACKGROUND: Having family members provide care to their loved ones in the intensive care unit (ICU) is a beneficial yet seldom implemented approach. For family members to perform caregiving, nurses must be willing to teach, and such willingness is a developing area of research. OBJECTIVES: To adapt an instrument validated in family members, the Family Willingness for Caregiving Scale, to address nurses' willingness to teach family members caregiving skills. METHODS: Purposive and snowball sampling were used to recruit 10 expert ICU nurses through the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses' research website and social media platforms. The researchers conducted cognitive interviews with the nurses to address the instrument's content validity. RESULTS: The scale was refined based on the participants' feedback. Items were deleted, added, and revised. Furthermore, scale instructions were adjusted to emphasize the willingness to teach families of patients receiving mechanical ventilation. Qualitative themes emerged related to barriers to family engagement, including time constraints, patient acuity, and nurse and family characteristics. CONCLUSIONS: Content validity of the scale was assessed, with future research aimed at pilot testing and evaluating construct validity before using the scale as a research instrument. Practical implications include using the scale as an evaluation tool to determine nurses' willingness to teach family members about caregiving. After evaluation, various strategies could be incorporated to enhance family engagement in adult ICUs.

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Nursing leadership in the critical care setting.

The challenge of a nursing leadership role within the critical care setting is most unique in that two competencies are required--clinical and administrative talents. The development of such leaders also presents a challenge to administrators of health care settings. With administrative support of the nurse who aspires to such a role, we will continue to provide the caliber of care required by acutely ill and injured patients. Based on a philosophy of management that promotes both clinical and administrative talents, this plan will not only best serve the patient population of acute/critical care units but will also help foster the professional commitment of nurse practitioners and encourage them to aspire to such roles.

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Variant angina: a nursing approach.

Variant angina presents as an atypical form of angina caused by coronary artery spasm. Due to the sudden disruption of blood and oxygen supply to the myocardium, a number of severe hemodynamic changes may occur, including life-threatening dysrhythmias, and left ventricular dysfunction. Rapid intervention can alleviate the symptoms caused by the arterial spasm and prevent catastrophic results. The critical care nurse plays a vital role in the diagnosis of variant angina and rapid treatment of the patient.

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Counseling the parents of a critically ill newborn.

Nurses caring for critically ill infants should be reminded of their responsibilities to the parents of these children. The parents' needs often go either unrecognized or unmet. Nurses in a neonatal intensive care unit should have a working knowledge of their additional responsibility of serving in the role of counselor. Knowing sufficiently what emotional factors should be considered, one can effectively implement this counseling.

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