Archive

• Nurse Patient Ratios 2000
• The Role of Health Care Assistants 2002
• The Use of Restraint in Adult Critical Care Units 2004
• Standards for Nurse Staffing in Critical Care

National Guidance and Policy Documents

• ICS Intensive Care 2020 and Beyond
• UKCCNA Position Statement - Nurse Staffing During COVID-19 Final  
• UKCCNA Position Statement: Emergency Nurse Staffing for COVID-19: Wave 2 (Nov 2020)
• British Association of Critical Care Nurses: Evidence-based consensus paper for oral care within adult critical care units September 2020 The aim of this paper is to provide an evidence-based British Association of Critical Care Nurses (BACCN) consensus paper for best practice relating to implementing oral care with the intention of promoting patient comfort and reducing Hospital Acquired Pneumonia (HAP) & Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP) in the critically ill patient. The paper aims to provide direction for critical care practitioners on how to perform comprehensive oral care which can be used as part of a VAP/HAP reduction strategy in conjunction with the ventilator care bundle approach.
• Detection, Prevention and Treatment of Delirium in Critically Ill Patients (2006) This document outlines the importance of recognising delirium as an acquired brain disorder and giving it the same high profile as any other organ dysfunction. It gives useful advice on the assessment and treatment of delirium.
• National Practitioner Programme (DOH) This discussion document outlines the progress that has been made with regard to the Advanced Critical Care Practitioner Role and seeks comments on the proposed National Education and Competence Framework. Although the period for responding to this is now closed the document none the less provides very useful information for anyone interested in these roles.
• Pandemic Influenza: Science to Policy (2006) This document identifies where policy makers might make better use of scientific evidence when developing policies and contingency planning.
• DOH Outreach Indicators Describes the role of critical care outreach services in supporting patient care and provides indicators of effectiveness for outreach service. Supports the forthcoming clinical guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence on the care of the acutely ill patient in hospital.
• Safer care for the acutely ill patient: learning from serious incidents Every year, 13 million people, on average, are admitted to acute hospitals in England and Wales. This new report contains a detailed analysis of serious patient safety incidents reported to the Agency’s National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS).
• ICS Guidelines for the Limitation of Treatment
• ICS Guidelines for the Transport of the Critically Ill
• RCN Guidance for nurse staffing in critical care
• WFCCN Position statement on the provision of critical care nursing education
• EfCCNA Position statement on Post-registration Critical Care Nursing Education within Europe
• Liverpool Integrated Care Pathway After Death
• Surviving Sepsis Guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock
• International Best Practice Guidelines in Critical Care published by the World Federation of Critical Care Nursing (WFCCN). 
• ICS Guidance on the transfer of the Critically Ill Adult Patient
• Care at the End of Life: A guide to best practice, discussion and decision-making in and around critical care