Sensory Input Problems of Intensive Care Patients and Nursing Approach

Intensive care units are special units that differ from other units of the hospital in terms of its treatment methods, technical equipment, physical appearance and sensory environment. Intensive care units that the advanced technological developments used in set the stage for appearing of sensory changing such as sensory deprivation and sensory pressure for patients by the reasons such as difference and intensity of the treatment, extra environmental stimulus, and lack of social support systems as well as being lifesaving. That’s why, while meeting the care and treatment requirements of intensive care patients, a holistic nursing care in which the patients’ psychosocial requirements are not ignored as well as their physical requirements is meaningful and important. In this article, writers aim to attract attention to the sensory input problems that the intensive care patients experienced and to explain nursing approaches that can be served in this direction.