Table 3.

Consequences of the N-CMVPC concept in the ICUs

Theme	Category	Subcategory
Effective communication outcomes	Improving the patients' health outcomes	▪ Promoting the patient's health and recovery [25,29]
		▪ Promoting the patient comfort and convenience [29,37]
		▪ Prevent adverse medical outcomes [17,25,30]
	Supporting patient rights	▪ Patient satisfaction [38]
		▪ Patient participation [25-27,29]
		▪ Patient respect ▪ Patient satisfaction [38]
		▪ Improving the quality of medical decisions [7,25,28]
	Effective nursing care	▪ Development of individual care quality [28,29]
		▪ Identifying and meet the patient needs [7,29]
		▪ Improving patient abilities and safety [25,29]
Ineffective communication outcomes	Nurse's occupational stress	▪ Nurse's frustration and dissatisfaction [7,31]
		▪ Nurse's feeling of failure and role inadequacy [7]
	Patient's physical and mental health disorders	▪ Incidence of anxiety disorders in the patient [9,14,25]
		▪ Patient emotional instability [12,24,27]
		▪ Patient's body image disturbance [24,27]
		▪ Impaired patient's health and recovery [14,27,28,30]
	Unpleasant and negative emotional experiences of the patient	▪ Feeling of dependency and vulnerability [12]
		▪ Patient's experience of being in a bad situation between life and death [12,24]
		▪ Patient's sense of captivity [12]
		▪ Patient's feeling of despair and dissatisfaction [9,12,25,31]
		▪ Patient's feeling of suffering and disorientation due to unmet needs[12]
	Patient's unsatisfied needs	▪ Unmet patient's needs [12]
		▪ Unknown patient's needs [12]
		▪ Unevaluated patient's needs [30]

N-CMVPC: nurse–conscious mechanically ventilated patient communication; ICU: intensive care unit.