Spotlight on safety, nutrition and well-being in critical care

Abstract

Welcome to a new issue of Nursing in Critical Care—the second one for this year. We open this issue with a thought-provoking guest editorial by our outgoing co-editor Lyvonne Tume co-written by Leanne Aitken. There is a substantial body of literature on the importance of, and challenges to, implementing beneficial evidence-based practices. Conversely, using routine gastric residual volume measurement as an exemplar, this guest editorial advocates for the equally important process of de-implementing critical care practices for which there is no evidence of benefit or, worse, which are potentially harmful. This guest editorial sets the scene for the rest of the issue, with several of its papers focussing on safety considerations and/or nutrition.