Course Overview
This 125 hour clinical course is designed for nurses completing a combined critical care and emergency certificate. Participants focus on applying and integrating nursing knowledge to provide nursing care for critically ill patients and their families experiencing acute respiratory failure, sepsis, and hemodynamic challenges including shock. Learners have opportunities to further develop their comprehensive assessment skills by providing safe, competent, and ethical nursing care. Theory will be integrated in relation to selecting and evaluating therapeutic interventions focusing on clinical decision making with increasingly complex patients. Learners will progress to independence in decision making and critical care nursing practice with stable mechanically ventilated patients. Learners will continue to work in collaboration for decision making with patients who are unstable, or experiencing complex critical illness. Working in partnership with patients and families, learners will develop an understanding of unique patient and family situations. Learners will actively participate in the provision of family centered care, ethics in practice, and best practices in specific patient situations. Laboratory experiences will include experiences related to practice skills related to intubation, mechanical ventilation, hemodynamic monitoring, and cardiac arrest management. Within the course a written assignment will focus on furthering knowledge of patients with sepsis.
Prerequisite(s)
Credits
5.0
- Retired
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Collect data through comprehensive assessment and integrate patient findings with oxygen supply and demand framework.
- Analyze collected data to identify actual and potential patient problems associated with oxygen supply and demand framework.
- Collaboratively and independently select and evaluate therapeutic interventions to optimize cellular oxgyenation.
- Integrate the knowledge and abilities to provide competent care to critically ill patients and family members requiring increasingly complex clinical judgment.
- Apply foundational knowledge of critical care nursing practice to implement care for patients experiencing respiratory failure, sepsis, and various causes of shock.
- Develop awareness of moral agency and ethical issues in critical care nursing practice.
- Collaboratively and/or independently provide family centered care.
- Provide safe, ethical and evidence informed nursing care consistent with best practices.
- Develop and use communication skills required to engage in dialogue with critically ill patients, family members and the health care team.
- Provide nursing care in a manner that supports and encourages collaboration and partnerships with patients, family members, and health care team.
- Recognize personal and professional growth as a critical care nurse.
- Begin to develop an understanding of knowledge, skills, abilities and clinical judgements transferrable to working with patients in the emergency department.
Effective as of Spring/Summer 2009
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