The connotative definition of transitioning to ICU survivorship includes four parts, beginning when survivors wake up from unconsciousness; struggling in life space change; an awareness of that they cannot go back to their precondition; realizing that they have to relinquish prior self-identity, sick role and active engagement in the adjusting process; and finally toward a road to unknown end.
Antecedents of transitioning to ICU survivorship
Antecedents are events that must occur before the occurrence of the transitioning to ICU survivorship. For transitioning to ICU survivorship, there are two antecedents. The first antecedent is when survivors are admitted to ICU (Peck, 2008). The …show more content…
The consequences of transitioning to ICU survivorship is a status that the personal’s interpretation of the past, expectations for the future, and the acceptance of present achieve harmoniously and form a new identity (Abdalrahim & Zeilani, 2014; Feldman, 1974; Jensen et al., 2017; Jones et al., 2003; Kean et al., 2016; Maley et al., 2016; Ramsay et al., 2014). There is no standard of ICU survivorship, it is subjective, unique and can vary from person to person. Survivors can achieve ICU survivorship only if they can accept that the critical illness changes their life, some changes might not return, they are not the person they used to be. They willing to relinquish the future they use to expect, the way they use to assess themselves, then accept and adapt to the person who they are …show more content…
Turnbull et al. (2016) reported that 250 unique instruments were used in these 425 studies he reviewed. Furthermore, all the measurement tools are adapted from other populations such as cancer survivors, and no studies evaluating the reliability, validity, responsiveness, or measurement error of these instrument in the ICU population (Parry et al., 2015). Studies have focused on the physical (pulmonary function testing, 6-minute walk test), cognitive ( the Mini-Mental State Examination, MMSE), mental health (the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, the Impact of Event Scale, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome 10-Questions instrument), and quality of life of ICU survivors (quality of life used the Short Form-36) (Turnbull et al.,