Episode 117: Power of The Podcast: Walking Home From The ICU

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Overcoming Barriers to Care Through Podcasting

The Commonwealth Fund’s 2024 report found that Americans face greater barriers to accessing and affording healthcare than their peers in other nations. Now, nurses are overcoming those barriers through a new, growing medium: podcasting. In our Power of Podcast series, we explore how nurses are taking their expertise to the airwaves to share evidence-based care solutions, offering patients and the public vital, practical, and trusted information while also providing healthcare colleagues tools to improve education and care delivery. Through podcasting, nurses are bridging gaps in education, care availability, and professional development, fostering better health outcomes and stronger communities.

Preventing Physical and Cognitive Impacts of Long-term Sedation and Immobility

In this second episode of our three-part series, critical care nurse practitioner Kali Dayton, DNP, AGACNP, shares how her podcast Walking Home from the ICU is mission-critical to improving ICU care and preventing the physical and cognitive impacts of long-term sedation and immobility. She shares how ICU clinicians can follow the ABCDEF Bundle and keep ICU patients awake, communicative, mobile, and autonomous. Families are more engaged and actively participating in their family member’s care.

Research that is Accessible, Applicable and Practical

Walking Home from the ICU dives into research from experts, survivor experiences, and critical care teams’ evidence-based practices. By ensuring that research is accessible, applicable, and practical for ICU clinicians, it is possible that patients can indeed walk home from the ICU and return fully to their lives!

About See You Now Podcast

See You Now is a podcast highlighting the innovative and human centered solutions that nurses are coming up with to solve for today’s most challenging, healthcare problems, created in collaboration with Johnson and Johnson and the American Nurses Association and hosted by nurse, economist and health tech specialist, Shawna Butler.

Resources

• Stopping Delirium Using the Awake-and-Walking Intensive Care Unit Approach: True Mastery of Critical Thinking and the ABCDEF Bundle
• Daily cost of an intensive care unit day: the contribution of mechanical ventilation - PubMed
• How We Stopped Unintentionally Harming ICU Patients | Institute for Healthcare Improvement
• Mirror, Mirror 2024: A Portrait of the Failing U.S. Health System
• The power of podcasts: Exploring the endless possibilities of audio education and information in medicine, healthcare epidemiology, and antimicrobial stewardship - PMC
• Development of Podcasts in a Hospital Setting: A User-Centered Approach
• Why today’s healthcare workers love podcasts | Wolters Kluwer
• Why Hospitals Should Invest in Healthcare Podcasting - ModPod
• Culture of early mobility in mechanically ventilated patients - PubMed
• Caring for Critically Ill Patients with the ABCDEF Bundle: Results of the ICU Liberation Collaborative in Over 15,000 Adults - PubMed
• Staged implementation of ABCDE bundle improves patient outcomes and reduces hospital costs - PMC
• Rehabilitation in the intensive care unit: How amount of physical and occupational therapy affects patients' function and hospital length of stay - PubMed
• Early Mobility Index and Patient Outcomes: A Retrospective Study in Multiple Intensive Care Units - PubMed
• Episode 21: What We've "Always Done" Isn't Always Right
• Walking Home From The ICU Podcast Episode with Susan East
• Walking Home From The ICU Podcast Episode 180: Leading The ABCDEF Bundle In Bangladesh