A day in life of a tele-Intensive Care Unit nurse

Intensive Care Units (ICUs) are highly complex organizations where lives are hanging by a thread. Approximately 400,000 to 500,000 people die each year in American ICUs. The highly complex environment and large responsibilities put a burden on ICU physicians and nurses. Research has shown that ICU physicians and nurses in the ICU report high levels of workload and burnout that are related to lower quality of care provided to ICU patients and patient safety problems. Furthermore, there is a shortage of ICU personnel, and this shortage will only increase now that the generation of Baby Boomers has started to retire.