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Nursing In Critical Care Journal

Official journal of the British Association of Critical Care Nurses
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14785153
Editors: Josef Trapani & Peter Nydahl

06/09/2026

📖 Sunday Read : What happens when an ICU survivor remembers coming close to death?

This scoping review explores the multidimensional nature of near-death experiences in adult ICU patients, including cognitive, emotional, supernatural and transcendental experiences.

🔎 The review highlights:
• vivid and enduring long-term memories
• increased spiritual needs following critical illness
• the Greyson Near-Death Experience Scale as the principal, although limited, assessment tool
• considerable variation in psychological outcomes and attitudes towards death
• the potential influence of culture and individual disease trajectories

A thought-provoking Sunday read on an aspect of survivorship that may be difficult to see, but deeply significant to those who experience it.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1111/nicc.70532

BACCN British Association of Critical Care Nurses

04/09/2026

🫁 Can simulation better prepare nursing students to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia?

This study examined whether scenario-based simulation training could strengthen undergraduate nursing students’ VAP prevention knowledge and skills.

🎓 36 nursing students participated in the pre-test/post test study, with skill performance independently assessed by two observers.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1111/nicc.70558

BACCN British Association of Critical Care Nurses

03/09/2026

🚨“Should we start CPR?”

In the ICU, nurses may be among the first healthcare professionals to recognise cardiac arrest and act. But the decision to initiate resuscitation is not always as straightforward as following an algorithm.

A new qualitative study explores how Iranian ICU nurses navigate this high-stakes and ethically complex decision. Through in-depth interviews with ICU nurses, nurse managers and physicians, researchers identified a central tension described as💭 “Limbo between duty and outcome”

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1111/nicc.70559

BACCN British Association of Critical Care Nurses

01/09/2026

🩺 How accurate are our sedation assessments, and are we documenting them consistently?

This study examined the accuracy and documentation of the Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale (RASS) in a cardiothoracic critical care unit.

🔍 In this prospective, cross-sectional audit of 76 nursing assessments:

📊75% of nurses’ RASS assessments were accurate when compared with expert auditor ratings.

⏰ Yet only 33% were documented hourly as required by policy.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1111/nicc.70531

BACCN British Association of Critical Care Nurses

30/08/2026

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What makes ICU nurses thrive and choose to stay?

This qualitative study explores Norwegian ICU nurses’ experiences of intensive care, highlighting staffing, colleagues, competence development and work–life balance.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1111/nicc.70543

BACCN British Association of Critical Care Nurses

29/08/2026

❤️‍🩹 “Decide Now!”

What contributes to moral distress among ICU nurses during advanced cardiopulmonary life support?

This qualitative study identifies challenges around resuscitation decisions, organisational factors and person-centred care.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1111/nicc.70536

BACCN British Association of Critical Care Nurses

28/08/2026

🫁 How often should endotracheal tubes be repositioned to help prevent oral mucosal pressure injuries?

A new RCT protocol will compare 4-hour versus 8-hour ETT repositioning intervals in mechanically ventilated adult ICU patients.

The study will examine whether more frequent repositioning can reduce the incidence of these injuries, while also assessing their timing, severity and anatomical location.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1111/nicc.70529

BACCN British Association of Critical Care Nurses

24/08/2026

🤖 AI can support clinical decisions, but does it make them easier?

A new qualitative study explores nurses’ experiences of AI-enabled decision support across emergency and intensive care settings.

The findings reveal a tension: while AI can support recognition and escalation, nurses described algorithmic pressure, heightened accountability and ethical discomfort when AI recommendations conflicted with their clinical judgement.

An important contribution to the conversation about keeping human judgement and professional responsibility at the centre of AI-supported care.

📖 https://doi.org/10.1111/nicc.70537

BACCN British Association of Critical Care Nurses

23/08/2026

📰 Sunday Read | Guest Editorial

👶 Neonatal Critical Care Nursing

This Sunday, we spotlight neonatal nurses and their vital contribution to research, innovation and improving care for infants and families.

This Guest Editorial brings together research from across the globe, highlighting different priorities and approaches while recognising one common thread: neonatal nurses are central to advancing neonatal care and research.

☕ Take a moment for this week’s .

📖 https://doi.org/10.1111/nicc.70555

BACCN British Association of Critical Care Nurses

21/08/2026

📢 Calling critical care nurses, researchers, educators and clinicians

Are you working on research that could contribute to the future of critical care nursing?

Nursing in Critical Care currently has four Calls for Papers open, covering some of the key challenges and developments shaping our specialty:

🤖 The AI Era in Critical Care Nursing: Innovation, Integrity, and Impact
📅 Deadline: 1 October 2026

💙 Nurses' Health and Well-being: Challenges, Innovations, and Solutions
📅 Deadline: 31 December 2026

🌱 Post-Intensive Care Syndrome: Prevention, Caregiver Burden, Long-Term Outcomes and Rehabilitation
📅 Deadline: 30 August 2027

🔍 Understanding, Measuring and Reducing Low Value Care in Critical Care Settings
📅 Deadline: 1 September 2027

Whether your work focuses on emerging technologies, the well-being of the critical care workforce, life after critical illness, or improving the value and quality of care, there may be a Special Issue for your research.

🔗 Explore all current Calls for Papers:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/14785153/homepage/call-for-papers

We look forward to receiving your work and continuing to showcase research that advances critical care nursing internationally.

BACCN British Association of Critical Care Nurses Wiley

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