Abstract

Background: Intensive Therapy Unit is specially equipped and organized unit of a hospital that provides highly specialized care to patients at risk of life. It constitutes a specific organizational and spatial unit with the specified characteristics of the profession, nursing, facilities, technology, equipment, work organization, administration and education. Nurses at the Intensive Therapy Unit are highly educated and trained and they take care of patients with life-threatening conditions (with an unstable and rapidly changing health condition). A nurse must have well-developed knowledge base, together with special expertise and professional experience relating to technology and health care requirements of the critically ill patients, leading to the ability of a clear, quick, critical judgment in an environment of intensive treatment.
Methods: With the method of compilation we summarized the views of domestic and foreign experts and presented the main findings.
Conclusion: Possibility of education and training must be provided and accessible to all employees as they contribute to greater patient safety in health facilities. To successfully carry out the work, it is important that each employee is properly educated and professionally qualified for the performance of their duties. With training, an employee has the opportunity to expand his or her knowledge and also to apply it in practice. The purpose of the training is to master the standards and procedures in health care.