With a decline in mortality in recent years, millions of survivors of acute critical illness are being discharged to their communities annually (Desai, Law, & Needham, 2011). The population threatens to overwhelm the current global healthcare system due to the complex and high demand for healthcare needs, and high rate of re-hospitalization. Thus, many scientific and professional organizations suggest prioritizing research related to the outcome of ICU survivors. From 1970 to 2013, there is more than 425 research on disease prognosis and outcome measurement in ICU survivorship (Turnbull et al., 2016). However, the term ICU survivorship refer to not only medical outcomes but also the individual’ s psychosocial transition. The issue is that how…show more content… The multidisciplinary first-hand qualitative research was included. CINAHL, PubMed, and Psychoinfo were used. Keywords entered were critical illness, ICU, survivors, survivorship and qualitative research. Literature published in English was chosen; this yielded 88 publications. Other articles found through the reference lists of included papers were also considered(N=9). The final yield was 27 articles take a rigorous concept analysis. The themes emerge from different studies were compared and contrasted. Some recurrent themes were extracted and rephrased as the attributes (essential components), antecedents, consequences of transitioning to ICU…show more content… The Oxford English Dictionary identify survivorship as “The state or condition of being a survivor; survival.” Peck (2008) propose that survivorship can happen in a different population, who survive after life-altering event, the core defining characteristics of survivorship include “acceptance of current and past life circumstances; altered self-image and self-identity which fully incorporate past events; modified future memories which incorporate new life circumstances.” Doyle (2008) define cancer survivorship in adults as “a process beginning at diagnosis,” “involving uncertainty,” and” changing experience with a duality aspects.” ICU survivorship focus on the survivorship of ICU survivors. They might share the same experience with survivors of another life-altering event (cancer, heart attack, earthquake, accident )(Peck, 2008). However, they do have some unique
