Nurse’s role and team coordination in acute blood purification

Abstract

Nurses play a particularly important role in continuous hemodiafiltration (CHDF) of acute blood purification therapies because it is continuously conducted for severe patients. Thus, we examined what nurses working in the ICU thought about the use of CHDF at this time. The results included both positive and negative thoughts, including 6 items, respectively, as a background of each thought. The positive thoughts of CHDF were contributed by sufficient medical safety measures such as education, manual preparation, information sharing, and the promotion of team health care. Meanwhile, negative thoughts were caused by considering troubleshooting as one’s weak point and marked anxiety. In order to resolve such anxiety, it is necessary to reinforce medical safety measures, and provide bedside education in coordination with experienced nurses, physicians, and MEs for nurses to realize team health care.