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Your Guide to Improving ICU Patient Care
Intensive care units around the world are suffering from a lack of evidence-based care for ventilated patients.
In most ICUs, standard practice for these patients involves putting them into medically-induced comas by deeply sedating them, and then keeping them immobile for days or weeks at a time.
However, evidence shows that these outdated protocols actually cause more harm than good, both for patients on the ventilator and the ICU team members who treat them.
This free report includes a vast amount of valuable insight, including:
- Dozens of citations with links to decades of peer-reviewed research
- Information on evidence-based sedation, mobility, and delirium practices
- How the Awake and Walking ICU approach can benefit intubated patients
- Dispelling the myths and exposing the truth about medically-induced comas
- How to improve ICU patient care and create better outcomes for ICU patients
- How to reduce healthcare costs and improve working conditions for ICU teams
Written by Kali Dayton, an ICU nurse practitioner who has witnessed the best and worst outcomes for ventilated patients in the ICU, this is one of the best educational resources for ICU teams who want to improve ICU patient care, or anyone looking for the truth about medically-induced comas.
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Here’s What Kali’s Clients Are Saying
I am a nurse leader responsible for improving practices across the intensive care units of a large health system. As an experienced ICU nurse, I know the culture that most often exists in ICUs is one that promotes and accepts over-sedation that often causes unintended harm. While reviewing the literature to better align our liberation practices with the best evidence, one of our bedside nurses discovered Walking Home From The ICU. The combination of poignant stories from ICU survivors with the expertise of some of ICU Liberation’s leading experts became the impetus for a system-wide evidence-based practice improvement project aimed at changing analgesia and sedation management in our ICUs. After initially being inspired by Kali’s podcast and the incredible stories it provides, we saw an opportunity for more. We brought Kali in to present a webinar to almost 100 of our critical care team members, including nurses, APPs, physicians, and respiratory therapists. Kali’s presentation struck a needed balance between evidence-based practice information and inspiring stories, highlighting real patients who benefited from a practice that is often very different from what occurs in most ICUs today. The webinar was very well-received by all who attended, and the lessons learned have continued to be referenced by our team members as we strive to create an Awake and Walking ICU culture.
Kali offers a refreshing perspective on critical care, and she supports it with a wealth of knowledge garnered from years as a bedside nurse and advanced practice provider. Kali knows how to speak to clinicians because she is one, and she’s still very connected to the daily lived experiences of those on the frontline of critical care. I believe anyone working in critical care will find inspiration in Walking Home From The ICU to change the harmful culture of sedation in their practice. I would even go so far as to recommend the podcast as required listening for all ICU team members, whether experienced clinicians or new residents and nurses. When additional support is needed, I encourage clinical leaders to utilize Kali’s expertise and experiences to further inspire and motivate their teams. Time spent working with Kali is an investment that will pay dividends in the positive impact it has on the lives of the patients we serve.
Patrick Bradley, MSN, RN, CCRN
Before Kali, our hospital struggled with overly-sedated patients and a lack of early mobility. Despite multiple efforts to change the culture, we were at a standstill. In one hour, Kali was able to ignite a flurry of conversations regarding her experience with the Awake and Walking ICU and this immediately led to a change in clinical practice. Patients with less sedation and other neurotoxic medications are spending fewer days on the ventilator. If you are considering starting an ICU early mobility program at your hospital, your first step needs to be to consult with Kali and absorb as much information as you can!
Matthew McClain, DPT
Meet Kali
Kali Dayton, DNP, AGACNP, is a critical care nurse practitioner, host of the Walking Home From The ICU podcast, Walking You Through The ICU podcast, and critical care outcomes consultant.
She is dedicating her experiences in the Awake and Walking ICU and ICUs around the USA to elevate ICU sedation and mobility practices by working to align them with current research. She works with ICU teams internationally to transform patient outcomes through early mobility and management of delirium in the ICU.
