Patient Diary Information and Guidance
Patient Diaries
Critical care patient diaries are a valuable tool in helping patients come to terms with their critical illness experience.
Whilst in Critical Care patients may be kept sedated for some time while they're mechanically ventilated. After discharge from ICU they often report having gaps in their memory from their illness or they may remember nightmares and hallucinations. A patient diary can help fill this memory gap and help patients to understand what has happened to them whilst in critical care. This diary is written for ICU patients by healthcare staff, particularly nurses and family members and friends.
Patient Diaries are also used in critical care follow up clinics to help the patient and family understand what has happened to them whilst they have been a patient in critical care.
Below is an example of a Patient Diary Template and their standard operating procedure for patient diaries from Warrington Critical Care Unit which is one of our units within CMCCN.
To view these documents please click on the links below :
WHH patient diaries standard operating procedure
Patient Bedside Sketchnotes / Drawings
In conjuction with local ICU Steps groups in Cheshire and Mersey, Dr Charlotte Woodward who is currently a junior Clinical Fellow in Emergency Department at Wirral University Teaching Hospital and will be a CT1 ACCS trainee in Merseyside from August has created some sketch notes/ drawings from a critical care patients perspective . She has kindly given CMCCN permission to use them within their critical care units. This can be used at the patients bedside, follow up clinics and in patient diaries.
To access the drawings please click here
