Course Overview
This theory course supports further development of critical care nursing practice and builds new knowledge related to providing care for increasingly complex, critically ill patients. Specifically, learners will have opportunities to develop clinical decision-making skills and processes while examining the care of a patient experiencing an alteration in cerebral oxygen supply and demand balance, and the care of a patient experiencing sepsis progressing toward septic shock. Learners will also have the opportunity to apply knowledge from previous courses related to family-centered care, ethics in practice, and best practices in specific patient situations and explore new knowledge related to contextual influences on selected aspects of critical care nursing practice. Finally, learners will focus a portion of their study on a patient experiencing one of the following critical illnesses; multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, cardiogenic shock, cardiac surgery, or surgery and post anesthesia.
Prerequisite(s)
- Satisfactory in NSCC 7425.
Credits
4.0
- 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 use the processes of reflective critical thinking, systematic inquiry, communication, collaboration and professionalism to:Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:
- Further develop critical care nursing practice by examining family centred care, ethics in practice, and evidence based nursing care in selected contexts.
- Based on conclusions regarding oxygen supply and demand in increasingly complex patients, select and evaluate therapeutic interventions.
- Apply foundational knowledge of critical care nursing practice to critically analyze and plan care for patients experiencing critical on chronic illness, ischemia and hemorrhagic stroke, sepsis and septic shock, and one of the following: multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS), coronary artery bypass, cardiogenic shock, or anaesthesia and surgery.
- Develop independent clinical decision-making with patients experiencing common critical illnesses and collaborative clinical decision-making with selected patients in specific critical care contexts.(i.e. MODS in ICU, coronary artery bypass in CSICU, cardiogenic shock in CCU, or anaesthesia and surgery in PACU).
- Explore meso and macro contextual influences on critical care nursing practice.
- Develop a vision of collaborative practice with patients, family members and members of the health care team.
Effective as of Spring/Summer 2012
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