Consideration of each of the themes

Consideration of each of the themes that emerged from descriptions of the intensive care
unit experience of patients, their family members and nurses who participated in this study
led to the interpretations and conclusions that clearly reflected Roy’s (2009, p. 26) conceptualisation
of adaptation as ‘a process and outcome whereby thinking and feeling people, as
individuals or in groups use conscious awareness and choice to create human and environmental
integration’.