Background: Nurses in the Intensive Care Units (ICUs) usually deliver care to  critical patients and their families. providing extreme quality health care is crucial for both patients and families, ICU nurses faced  numerous barriers while caring  ICU patients. This study aims to identify the barriers perceived by  the nurses during working in intensive care units .

Methodology

Three hospitals participated in a descriptive cross-sectional study. The current study enrolled a total of 289 intensive care unit nurses. To obtain data, an adapted and modified questionnaire was employed. The questionnaire includes questions concerning nursing care barriers as well as demographic information about nurses. For each aspect, a five-point Likert scale was employed, with 1 indicating strong agreement and 5 indicating strong disagreement.

Results: In our study, among 289 participants, maximum of the study members 176 (60.9%) were in the age group of   20–30 years. Most of  ICU nurses stated the family barrier as the main barrier were perceived  by  mean score of 4.01 ± 0.50. The other associated barriers include technological, organizational barriers, task and environmental barriers.

Conclusions:  

According to a recent study, ICU nurses experienced a number of challenges when caring for ICU patients. The highest obstacle among ICU nurses was the family barrier, with a mean score of 4.01 0.50. The majority of nurses believed that spending a lot of time explaining things to patients' family members (87.9%) was the most common family barrier.  The recent study findings can be used by healthcare policymakers and nursing management to improve the performance of the healthcare system.

Keywords: Perceived Barriers; Patients Care; Nurses;. Intensive Care Units