Nurses
Intensive Care nurses are highly qualified members of the team who specialise in treating critically unwell patients. They will look after one patient or at the most two patients at a time depending on the severity of illness of that individual.
Our ICU nurses' roles include:
Our ICU nurses' roles include:
- Giving patients their medications
- Taking personal care of them
- Checking patient blood pressure, monitoring the patient’s pulse and temperature
- Setting up drips of essential medications to help support a patients blood pressure
- Giving nutrition to patients by helping them with their meals
- Supporting the recovery of patients that have undergone severe surgery or treatment
- Ensuring patients are turned so that they can optimise their lung functions and to reduce the risk of pressure sores
- Providing psychological support for patients and relatives
- and so much more….