High Acuity Specialty Nursing Clinical 1 NSHA 7300

As a healthcare practitioner, you are expected to follow professional standards of practice throughout all SN programs and courses. In this course, you will have opportunities to use the processes of critical thinking, systematic inquiry, communication, collaboration, leadership, professionalism, and clinical decision-making. Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Use clinical decision-making knowledge to make appropriate clinical–ethical decisions in the provision of care for the high acuity patient.
• Perform comprehensive assessments on high acuity patients and clearly articulate and document assessment findings in a systematic manner.
• Apply theoretical concepts related to oxygen supply and demand to form conclusions and explain relevant interventions for high acuity patients.
• Collaborate with the healthcare team to provide patient and family-centred care to optimize patient outcomes.
• Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge to provide safe, competent, and ethical nursing care for patients experiencing alterations in oxygen supply and demand due to acute illnesses.
• Demonstrate knowledge and novice ability in providing nursing care for a rapidly deteriorating patient.
• Demonstrate knowledge and novice ability in specialized high acuity skills (for example, dysrhythmia interpretation, arterial blood gas analysis, invasive hemodynamic monitoring and non-invasive pressure ventilation).
• Advocate for safe, competent, and ethical care for high acuity patients.

Effective as of Spring/Summer 2023