Descriptor 2: Giving medications
Administering medications to acutely critically ill patients in the ICU is one crucial role that nurses in this study identified as another component in the provision of physiological care to patients. One nurse summarised her feelings in fulfilling this beneficial role:
My experience in ICU is both pleasant and rewarding. I know that when I give medications it will work especially the critical cases. Patients who I have provided care for a long time and I see them improve, I feel good. It is rewarding because you see that medications work, and nursing care work. Whatever you give to them you see good results. You say to yourself that you did something. I think it matters a lot.