Registered Nurse - Critical Care Nursing - 871

Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate knowledge of the critical care team members roles, medical directives, reflective practice, crisis management, burnout ethics, informed consent, DNR, organ donation education patients and families, patient safety principles of adult education, physical assessment, triage, trauma, multi-system failure, burns infection, conflict management, change management, interpersonal relations, palliation, pain and legal issues.
• Demonstrate knowledge of assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care provided to patients with respiratory, cardiovascular, neurological or GI/GU difficulty using enhanced knowledge of pathopsychological processes.
• Demonstrate knowledge of pulmonary anatomy and physiology, pulmonary assessment, pulmonary diagnostic studies, pulmonary injuries, treatments and nursing care, lung cancer and thoracic surgery, emergency airway management, O2 therapy, mechanical ventilation, positive pressure ventilation, invasive mechanical ventilation, nursing care of ventilated patients, weaning extubation and adjunctive therapies.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the anatomy and physiology of the cardiovascular system, electrophysiology of the heart, ECG analysis including purpose and function, components of ECG complex and significance of abnormal waves, normal sinus rhythm, the various arrhythmias, causes and treatments, familiarity with pacemakers, understanding of hypertensional aortic aneurysm and coronary artery disease, treatments and nursing care, familiarity with ventricular valvular heart disease, cardiac infection, heart failure, cardiogenic shock, cardiac surgery (pre and post op care) and hemodynamic monitoring and cardiac output measurement.
• Demonstrate knowledge of major neuromuscular problems including anatomy and physiology of the brain, types of head injuries, treatments and nursing care, cerebral vascular diseases and classifications, neurological deficits, treatments and nursing care. Understand the A&P of the spine , causes of spinal cord injuries, the importance of neurological assessment including the application of the Glascow Coma scale including assessment of motor and sensory function and appropriate nursing measures.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the GI/GU systems and understanding of fluid and electrolyte balance, abdominal assessment, GI diagnostic procedures, disorders and treatments, hypovolemic shock and treatment, endocrine disorders and treatments, nutrition and metabolism of the critically ill patient, renal A&P and assessment, acute renal failure and treatments, renal dialysis, septic shock and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, treatment and nursing care.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the special needs population (pediatric, geriatric, psychiatric and transplant) in the critical care setting. Develop skill in critically appraising research that supports nursing practice.
• Apply knowledge of critical care nursing in the critical care practicum components