Pediatric Critical Care Nursing Theory 4 NSPE 7290

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:

• Integrate principles of normal growth and development in the care of critically ill pediatric patient experiencing various health challenges.
• Examine pharmacologic agents commonly used to treat various high-risk health challenges to inform clinical decision making for critically ill pediatric patients.
• Describe and demonstrate techniques for safe medication administration in pediatric critical care settings for pediatric patients experiencing various health challenges (e.g., acute kidney injury, cardiac surgery and cardiogenic shock).
• Identify the theoretical concepts of advanced hemodynamic monitoring techniques and the relationship to supporting and balancing oxygen supply and demand in a variety of high-risk health challenges (e.g. cardiac surgery and open heart admission, pacemaker therapy, cardiogenic shock).
• Use knowledge of unique pediatric anatomy and pathophysiology, clinical presentation and comprehensive cardiac assessment to critically analyze data, form and prioritize conclusions and plan immediate nursing care to optimize oxygen supply and demand for a pediatric patient experiencing; open heart surgery, cardiogenic shock, acute kidney injury and requiring pacemaker therapy.
• Identify, systematically analyze and interpret advanced cardiac dysrhythmias.
• Use communication and collaboration skills in order to establish and maintain partnerships with an inter-professional team, families, and pediatric patient with serious illnesses.

Effective as of Spring/Summer 2023