One of the most common laboratory tests in intensive care units is the arterial blood gases, sampling of arterial blood gases (as a critical care nursing responsibility) might be corrupted by pre-analytical factors that influence the validity of results. Arterial blood gases are valuable only if obtained properly and measured carefully. Corrupted factors in arterial blood gas sampling change significantly the results and adversely affect patient-care decisions when the magnitude of the error is clinically important. Validity of a laboratory finding has been defined as the 'degree of achieving...

Patients with implanted cardiac devices constitute a growing segment of the contemporary health practices. Many life threatening complications may arise after implanted cardiac devices insertion. Nurses' Knowledge and practices could be beneficial in caring of patients with these devices and preventing any self or environmental interactions which can adversely affect proper device function and will increase adherence to the follow-up treatment.

Pain is one of the most common experiences and stressors in Critically Ill Patients. Uncontrolled pain triggers physical and emotional stress responses, Inhibits healing, Increases the risk for other complications, and Increases the length of stay in the Critical Care Unit. The critical care nurse has a unique and important role in Pain management which includes: Perform pain assessment, Provide patient teaching, Perform physical care, help relieve pain by administering pain-relieving interventions including both Pharmacological and Non-Pharmacological approaches.

Acute drug poisoning is one of the life threatening conditions. Detection and management of poisoning constitutes a core emergency nursing competency. Nurses knowledge and practice play important roles in provision of supportive care to decrease morbidity and mortality secondary to poisonings.Poisoning requires a multi-disciplinary team to manage a set of issues ranging from prevention of poisonings in the home to support critically ill poisoned patients in the emergency and intensive care units.

Sleep as one of the basic human needs is absolutely essential for patients to survive from critical illness. Despite the best medical interventions, critically ill patients require sleep to recuperate. Therefore, sleep quality and factors that might negatively influence sleep were assessed. The current study revealed that critically ill patients perceived sleep quality as altered and described this alteration as a moderate degree of sleep disturbance. The etiologies of sleep disturbances in the current study were found to be multifactorial: presence of strange and bad odors, noise, having...