Course Overview
Critical Care Nursing Theory 2 is intended to expand your ways of knowing, being, and doing in critical care nursing. Specifically, this course will provide opportunity to explore foundational knowledge of relational family practice and ethical practice within the context of critical care nursing. You will have the opportunity to expand your knowledge related to strategies employed to optimize a patient’s oxygen supply using advanced hemodynamic monitoring and mechanical ventilation. Managing a patient’s metabolic and oxygen demand will be introduced as a key concept in the critical care context. You will apply concepts learned in this course to a patient experiencing acute respiratory failure including pneumonia with progression to acute respiratory distress syndrome.
Prerequisite(s)
- Satisfactory in NSCC 7310.
Credits
3.0
- Retired
- This course has been retired and is no longer offered. Find other Flexible Learning courses that may interest you.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Further explore caring in critical care nursing practice by examining family-centered care, ethics in practice, and evidenced-based nursing care.
- Based on conclusions regarding oxygen supply and demand balance, select and evaluate therapeutic interventions in patients experiencing acute respiratory failure and hemodynamic instability (e.g., mechanical ventilation; vasoactive medications, pain and anxiety management, etc.).
- Utilize foundational knowledge of critical care nursing practice to critically analyze and plan care for patients experiencing acute respiratory failure and hemodynamic instability.
Effective as of Winter 2012
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