A strategy for decreasing anxiety of ICU transfer patients and their families.

With the growing number of clients transferred out of the intensive care units (ICUs) following increasingly shorter stays, time constraints have become a barrier to effective teaching. Written information that is readily available to clients helps resolve this problem. A pamphlet (in Spanish and English) was developed to ease the move for patients, families, and critical care and medical nurses from a medical ICU (MICU) to a general floor.