Intensive Care Research - Call for Papers: Special Issue on Evidence-based Nursing: Early Mobilization in ICU
Guest Editor:
Dr. Selda MERT, Kırşehir Ahi Evran University, Turkey
Email: sselda.mertt@gmail.com
Aims and scope
Early mobilization (EM), defined as the implementation of physical activity within the first 2-5 days after a critical illness or injury, is an important part of critical care in improving patient outcomes. EM has been shown to reduce mechanical ventilation duration, intensive care
and hospital stay, improve physical function at hospital discharge, and reduce long-term hospital readmission and mortality rates. There is a need for evidence-based studies focusing on the effectiveness of early mobilization and investigating EM performed by experienced nurses in increasing the applicability of EM. The Intensive Care Research is dedicating a special entire issue to EM in ICU, including but not limited to short and long term effects of EM, the effectiveness of intensive care workers in EM, patient and employee safety in EM, mobilization in risky patients (elderly patients, surgery patients, disabled patients, Covid-19 patients, etc.), obstacles to performing EM, complications during mobilization, knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of intensive care professionals regarding the early mobilization of critically ill patients, and relevant topics. We welcome reviews, original research, and other types of articles on these topics.
Important date
Open date: 17 November 2023
Submit your paper
All papers have to be submitted via the Editorial Manager online submission and peer review system. Instructions will be provided on screen and you will be stepwise guided through the process of uploading all the relevant article details and files associated with your submission. During submission authors should indicate that their manuscript belongs to the special issue “Evidence-based Nursing: Early Mobilization in ICU” (this question will appear at “Additional Information” step). All manuscripts must be submitted in English.
To access the online submission site for the journal, please visit https://www.editorialmanager.com/icrs/default1.aspx. Note that if this is the first time that you submit to the Intensive Care Research, you need to register as a user of the system first.
NOTE : Before submitting your paper, please make sure to review the journal's Author Guidelines first.
Introduction of the Guest Editor
Dr. Selda Mert holds the position of Assistant Professor at Kırşehir Ahi Evran University. She earned her doctorate degree from Istanbul University in 2016. Her research interests encompass a wide range of topics, including evidence-based nursing practices, patient or employee health and safety, job-related stress in nurses, ethical sensitivity, and complementary nursing interventions in surgical patients. She has conducted extensive research in the fields of evidence-based practices in surgical diseases nursing, nursing care quality, surgical patients and cardiovascular surgery.