Sarah K. Wells

ORCID: 0009-0008-8391-1323
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Research Areas
  • Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments
  • Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
  • Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair
  • Health and Wellbeing Research
  • Emergency and Acute Care Studies
  • Health and Well-being Studies
  • Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
  • Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty
  • Nursing Roles and Practices
  • Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
  • Work-Family Balance Challenges
  • Bone Tumor Diagnosis and Treatments
  • Dysphagia Assessment and Management
  • Hip and Femur Fractures
  • Patient Safety and Medication Errors
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • Thermal Regulation in Medicine
  • Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Amoebic Infections and Treatments
  • Healthcare Education and Workforce Issues
  • Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
  • Respiratory Support and Mechanisms
  • Jewish Identity and Society
  • Ethics in medical practice

American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
2023-2024

The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
2016

Georgia Institute of Technology
2016

Essex Cardiothoracic Centre
1985

Making respiratory assessments in children can be intimidating for new nurse graduates. Pediatric distress a tricky condition to identify and assess. Gaining skill at assessment requires repeated clinical exposure, opportunities such exposure during nurses' education training experiences have decreased sharply since the start of COVID-19 pandemic.In this month's issue, Raab colleagues compare nurses randomly assigned 1 2 groups: an intervention group that used immersive virtual reality...

10.4037/ajcc2024199 article EN American Journal of Critical Care 2024-03-01

10.4037/ajcc2024137 article EN American Journal of Critical Care 2024-09-01

Q I love nursing, but am thinking about giving it up. How can reengage in my profession?A Sarah K. Wells, MSN, RN, CEN, CNL, and A. Delgado, ACNP, reply:Nursing, its most basic form, is the act of caring for someone who sick.1 Nurses join profession expecting to provide skilled informed care others when they need most. When delivery does not meet our expectations, job dissatisfaction, burnout, moral distress threaten emotional well-being ability feel psychologically safe. In addition, nurses...

10.4037/ccn2023429 article EN Critical Care Nurse 2023-02-01

No validated method for pain assessment exists pediatric patients who are receiving mechanical ventilation and require neuromuscular blockade (NMB) in the intensive care unit (PICU). So how do we assess this population?Laures et al completed a survey of 107 PICU nurses found that 61% use behavioral scales to these children. Behavioral not valid patient population. Nurses reported relying on physiologic variables when providing interventions. The article endorsed need create decision-support...

10.4037/ajcc2023996 article EN American Journal of Critical Care 2023-09-01
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