Manuscript patient

AACN Advanced Critical Care is seeking manuscripts focused on topics of interest to experienced nurse clinicians—those with more than 7 years of experience, clinical educators, and/or advanced practice nurses who care for critical or acute care patients. All articles should be referenced, with emphasis on the latest research findings and evidence-based practice information when appropriate.

Feature Articles (individual, unsolicited articles that are not part of a topic-based series)

* Advanced clinical articles (disease management and prevention, advanced content on monitoring and

  application of critical care technologies, etc)

* Innovations/new approaches to care of the critical and acute care patient

* Review of the literature and evidence-based practice articles with a heavy emphasis on implications for  

   practice

* Systems- or role-related articles of interest to experienced clinicians and/or advanced practice nurses

   working in critical or acute care areas

Potential Topics

1.     Evidence-based practice summaries (key recommendations, implications for practice, strategies for

2.     changing practice) on disease management, symptom management, prevention of complications, and use of medical technologies

3.     Promoting evidence-based practice in critical care and acute care nursing (system structures to facilitate

4.     a clinical environment that is focused on evidence-based practice, examples of different approaches to evidence-based practice at facilities)

5.      Advanced modes of mechanical ventilation (understanding the physiologic effects of ventilation and oxygenation, implications for nursing management)

6.     Current approaches to glycemic control (impact on outcomes, monitoring issues, protocols, transitioning from intravenous to subcutaneous/oral hyperglycemic agents, assuring compliance with protocols, issues to be resolved)

7.      Managing delirium in the acutely ill patient

8.      Rapid response teams (purpose, protocols, monitoring outcomes)

9.     Nutrition topics.

10.   Tips for adult clinicians caring for pediatric patients (key assessment and normal value differences from adults, differences in responses to illness)

11.  Managing antibiotic-resistant infections

12.  Inflammation—from cellular level to treatment.

13.  Palliative and end-of-life care in critical care.

14.  Maximizing interdisciplinary collaboration.

15.  Effective decision making.

16.  Conflict resolution and negotiation.

17.  Mentoring and coaching.

18.  Virtual ICU implementation.

19.  Shared governance success stories

20.  Technology in patient care (decision-making framework for selecting new technology, influencing technology decisions in the workplace, using research to guide technology decisions)

21.   Prevention of complications in critically ill patients (deep vein thrombosis, pneumonia, gastrointestinal dysfunction, hospital-acquired infections)

22.  Staff development topics (developing and supporting preceptors and new graduates in critical care, successful strategies for orientation)

23.  Advances in hemodynamic monitoring

24.   Pharmacology topic.

25.  Pediatric critical care topics