Exhausted Nurse
High Turnover in Critical Care Staffing Makes the Case for Automation
More than five million patients are admitted into the ICU each year.1 One of the most common reasons is the need for respiratory support due to respiratory failure.2 Approximately 25% of patients who require mechanical ventilation will develop acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS),2 a severe condition that often leads to the need for prone positioning.
Prone positioning, if done manually, requires a significant number of staff. They must be well prepared and specially trained to reduce the risk for adverse events associated with prone positioning such as lift injury, tube dislodgement, and pressure injury.4 While prone positioning has been established as a first line of treatment for ARDS, it is often underutilized due to these risks.3,4
There are more than 62,000 nurses working in critical care in the United States today, with an average age of 44 years.4 According to a recent survey, over 50% of critical care nurses leave their jobs within two years.4 Factors contributing to this high turnover include the difficulties involved in manual lifting and the resulting injuries to staff members.
The Pronova-O2 Automated Prone Therapy System provides an opportunity to transform how prone positioning is provided for critically ill patients, protecting patients and caregivers with automation.
Call us today and allow Turn Medical to guide your facility to successful implementation of automated prone therapy. Our clinical staff understands what it takes to make the changes needed to automate this manual process which places nurses at increased risk for injury every day.
INQUIRE NOW to request a demo for your facility! For additional information on automated prone positioning, please visit turnmedical.com or call 1-855-275-8876.
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- Society of Critical Care Medicine. “Critical Care Statistics.” https://www.sccm.org/Communications/Critical-Care-Statistics#:~:text=The%20leading%20causes%20of%20death,accounting%20for%20270%2C000%20deaths%20annually.
- Bellani G, Laffey JG, Pham T, et al; LUNG SAFE Investigators; ESICM Trials Group. Epidemiology, patterns of care, and mortality for patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome in intensive care units in 50 countries. JAMA. 2016;315(8):788-80, doi: 10.1001/jama.2016.0291.
- Wiggermann N, Zhou J, Kumpar D. Proning Patients With COVID-19: A Review of Equipment and Methods. Human Factors. 2020;62(7):1069-1076. doi:1177/0018720820950532
- https://www.zippia.com/intensive-care-unit-nurse-jobs/demographics/
