Learning Outcomes

As licensed health care practitioners, all learners will practice in accordance with professional standards of practice throughout the course. Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• Use a clinical decision-making framework to guide decisions in the provision of patient and family care.
• Demonstrate independent clinical decision making in pediatric critical care nursing during the care of pediatric patients and their families.
• Use therapeutic communication, collaboration and partnership skills in the development and maintenance of nurse-child and nurse-family member relationships.
• Document and articulate assessment findings and patient, family, and nursing concerns in a systematic and comprehensive manner.
• Provide competent nursing care that acknowledges and encourages collaboration with the patient, family, and other inter-professional team members.
• Plan, implement and evaluate nursing care of pediatric patients and their families which reflects consideration of available resources, principles of growth and development, knowledge of normal and pathologic physiology, family-centered care and standards of practice.
• Provide safe, competent, and ethical nursing care for pediatric patients and their families experiencing a variety of health challenges (trauma, neurological injury, burns, septic shock, congenital cardiac defects, acute respiratory failure, and advanced hemodynamic instability).
• Describe ethical issues commonly encountered in the pediatric critical care setting and identify issues that may contribute to moral distress.
• Participate in ethical decision making in the pediatric critical care setting.

Effective as of Fall 2019