Abstract
Highly educated and skilled nursing care is critical to improving patient outcomes
in general and in specialties like neurocritical care. Nursing interventions reflect
nursing knowledge, critical thinking, and decision-making and is generally rooted
in the nursing process. Nursing interventions are also a key focus of research to
better understand how nursing care influences patient outcomes. This review describes
the literature regarding nursing interventions in key neurocritical diagnoses and
contextualizes it within the broader discussion about the nursing process and nursing
interventions research. Publications about nursing interventions in neurocritical
care emphasize key themes, including managing neurophysiologic parameters, providing
psychosocial support, managing the environmental milieu, and interventions to prevent
complications. Further study of how to best support nurses in collecting and interpreting
data to form nursing interventions is needed, as is understanding the benefits and
limitations of the nursing process in low- and middle-income countries.
Keywords
nursing intervention - nursing - stroke - traumatic brain injury - seizure
