Coombs M
Intensive Care Unit, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford.
Nurs Crit Care. 1999 Mar-Apr;4(2):81-4.
Wide-reaching professional, organisational and technological changes within healthcare have impacted on the role of the critical care nurse over the past decade. The major challenge to critical care nurses is to remain focused on providing quality care, optimistic about what can be achieved and realistic given the finite resources available. Suggestions as to how the future of critical care nursing may look are raised. Strategies to ensure that best practice and innovation continues within critical care are discussed, ensuring that patient and family needs remain a priority.
在过去十年中，医疗保健领域广泛的专业、组织和技术变革对重症护理护士的角色产生了影响。重症护理护士面临的主要挑战是始终专注于提供高质量护理，对能够取得的成果保持乐观态度，并在有限的可用资源条件下保持现实态度。文中还提出了关于重症护理未来可能面貌的建议。讨论了确保重症护理领域持续保持最佳实践和创新的策略，确保患者和家属的需求始终是首要关注点。
