A mixed methods exploration of intensive care unit nurses' perception of handling oxygen therapy to critically ill patients.

Nurses handle supplementary oxygen to intensive care unit patients as part of their daily practise. To secure patients of optimal and safe care, knowledge of nurses' perception of this practise, including influencing factors for adjusting oxygenation levels is essential. This study aimed to explore intensive care nurses' perception of handling oxygenation and of factors that govern and influence this practise. A mixed methods approach was applied comprising six focus group interviews, conducted in February/March 2017, leading to construction of a questionnaire distributed to 535 ICU nurses in September 2017. Following a process of content analysis, the findings were discussed against Gittell's framework for relational coordination. Intensive care units in rural, urban and university hospital settings. A deeper understanding of nurses' perception of handling oxygenation to patients in the intensive care unit. Findings are presented through the categories Treatment Guidance, Nursing Practise, Knowledge and Competences and Inter-professional Collaboration. Nurses' practise of handling supplementary oxygen therapy to the intensive care patient is influenced by day-by-day physician prescribed upper and lower limits for pO

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