Aspects on patient safety in intensive care unit : a literature review

Abstract

Ensuring patient safety is becoming increasingly important for intensive care unit practitioners. The intensive care unit is particularly prone to medical errors because of the complexity of the patients, interdependence of the practitioners, and dependence on team functioning. The aim of this research is to find out the aspects on patient safety in the intensive care unit. After the research is complete then the results will be published in Hoitonetti as information for nurses. A research question was set up to find out how nurses can provide patient safety in the intensive care unit through a systematic literature review. Seven articles were selected for the review process. Workload, emotional stability, following safety precautions and lack of drug availability problems were found that lead to lack of the patients’ safety in the ICU.