Pediatric Critical Care Nursing Theory 1 NSPE 7260

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:

• Describe the context of pediatric critical care nursing practice and recognize the unique experience of the critically ill pediatric patient and their family.
• Apply the concepts of family centered care and relational practice within the context of pediatric critical care settings.
• Describe the role of inter-professional collaborative practice within pediatric critical care contexts.
• Identify the unique anatomical and physiological characteristics of various pediatric body systems.
• Integrate principles of normal growth and development in the care of critically ill pediatric patient experiencing various health challenges.
• Describe the concepts of oxygen supply and demand during the care of the critically ill pediatric patient.
• Interpret multiple sources of information to comprehensively assess the status of the critically ill pediatric patient and inform clinical decision making.
• Incorporate information gained from systematic blood gas analysis into comprehensive assessment of the critically ill pediatric patient.
• Identify the principles of invasive hemodynamic monitoring.
• Integrate hemodynamic assessment data into comprehensive assessment of critically ill pediatric patient.
• Determine age-appropriate pain assessment strategies, including pharmacological and non-pharmacological pain management techniques.
• Describe and demonstrate techniques for safe medication administration in pediatric critical care settings.
• Describe and identify the concepts of non-invasive ventilation of the critically ill pediatric patient.

Effective as of Spring/Summer 2023