Table 4.

Nurse Perceptions from a Random Sample of 21 ICU Nurses

Average years working in ICU	6 (1–30)a
Average number of patients managed on eProtocol insulin	6 (1–250)a
As much work as:
Intravenous medications	9
Mechanical vent support	4
Single vasoactive drug	4
Multiple vasoactive drug	2
Dialysis (all, e.g., peritoneal dialysis, CVVHb)	2
Dialysis:
Ease of use (0 = easy, 10 = difficult)	2.6 (0–8)
Impact on ability to complete non-IIT-related nursing care to the patient on eProtocol-insulin (0 = no impact, 10 = significant impact)	4.0 (0–10)
Impact on work-related stress (0 = no added stress, 10 = significantly more stress)	3.8 (0–8)
Impact on ability to complete non-IIT-related nursing care to other patients assigned to you today (0 = no impact, 10 = significant impact)	2.6 (0–6)

^aMedian and range. All other values reported as mean and range.

^bContinuous venovenous hemofiltration.