The ICU Workforce, an Issue of Critical Care Clinics (The Clinics: Internal Medicine)

In this issue of Critical Care Clinics, guest editors Drs. Ankita Agarwal and Andrea Sikora bring their considerable expertise to the topic of The ICU Workforce. Top experts discuss topics such as the modern ICU workforce crisis; who makes up the ICU team: roles, scope, and interdependence across disciplines; ICU staffing ratios: evidence, ethics, and economics; administrative harm and workforce strain indicators; technology, monitoring, and EHR meta-data; and more. Contains 12 relevant, practice-oriented topics including defining burnout and moral distress in the ICU context; the COVID19 pandemic as a stress test of the ICU workforce; optimizing team integration of ICU pharmacists; redesigning ICU workflows using quality improvement methods; the future ICU workforce; and more. Provides in-depth clinical reviews on the ICU workforce, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.