the patient's condition such as their physical and psychological response to changes in their condition, and the monitoring of any equipment to which the patient is connected (Nurse 2005, p.5). The critical care practitioner is also often the person who provides information about the patient to family and to members of the interdisciplinary team caring for the patient.
Before critical care practitioners can implement research findings into practice, they need to do a clinical audit (Jones and Hawthorn, 2002, pp.1-3). A clinical audit is a systematic review of patient care and outcomes evaluated against explicit criteria. The audit
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