Transfer Anksiyetesi; Yoğun Bakım Hastası ve Ailesinin Ortak Duygusal Deneyimi

Öz

Yoğun bakım ünitesinde yatmak birey ve ailesi için önemli bir anksiyete yaşantısıdır. Yoğun bakım ünitesindeki hastaların sağlık sorunlarının ciddi, sağlık durumlarında değişikliklerin hızlı olması, duruma ilişkin belirsizlik yaşanması hasta ve aile- nin anksiyetesini artırmaktadır. Yoğun bakımda yatmak kadar yoğun bakımdan taburcu olmak ya da servise geçiş de hasta ve ailesinde anksiye- teye neden olmaktadır. Hasta ve ailelerin çoğu yoğun bakımdan ayrılmayı hastanın durumunda olumlu bir gelişme olarak değerlendirmemekte, bakım ve izlemin aksayacağını, yeterince güvenli bir ortamda olunmayacağını düşünmekte ve kaygı yaşamaktadır. Yaşanan bu kaygı transfer anksiye- tesi olarak adlandırılmaktadır. Transfer anksiyetesi hastanın iyileşme sürecinin olumsuz etkilenme- sine ve duygusal sorunların taburculuk sonrası devam etmesine neden olmaktadır. Bu nedenle yoğun bakım hemşirelerinin hasta ve ailesinin transfer anksiyetesini azaltmak için holistik bakım vermeleri ve bilgilendirme sorumluluğunu etkin bir şekilde yerine getirmeleri gerekmektedir

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Yoğun bakım, hasta, hasta ailesi, transfer anksiyetesi

Transfer Anxiety: Common Emotional Experience of Patients in Intensive Care Unit and Their Families

Öz

Staying in an intensive care unit is an important anxi- ety life for the individuals and their families. The seri- ousness of health problems for the patients staying in intensive care units and rapid changes in their health status and the ambiguity in their status increase the anxiety of both the patient and their families. Besides staying in intensive care unit, being discharged from intensive care units or being transferred to depart- ments also cause anxiety among the patients and their families. Most of the patients and their families don’t regard being discharged from intensive care units as a positive development. They think the care and observation will fail, they will not be in a suf- ficiently safe environment and they experience anxi- ety. These experienced anxieties are called transfer anxiety. Transfer anxiety negatively affects the heal- ing process of the patients and emotional problems continue after being discharged. For this reason, nurses in intensive care units should give holistic care in order to minimize the transfer anxiety levels of the patients and their families. They should effectively discharge their responsibility to inform them

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Intensive care, patient, patient’s family, transfer anxiety

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