Intensive Care Nursing

Through a series of system based topics you will be introduced to current, topical and evidence based approaches in Intensive Care Nursing:

1. Understand a systematic assessment of the intensive care patient.
2. Understand systems and therapies in Intensive Care
3. Interpret and integrate the results of an assessment to inform management strategies.
4. Discuss current topics and issues in Intensive Care

1. Learning objectives for the ICU nurse.

1. Systematic Assessment
2. Deteriorating Patient Assessment
3. End of Life Care in ICU
4. Cubicle Safety Checks

1. Neurological Assessment

1. Intra-aortic Balloon Pump(IABP)checklist
2. 12-Lead Electrocardiogram

1. Airway Adjuncts
2. Mechanical Ventilator Management
3. Prone Position Procedure

1. Liver Failure

1. Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy

1. Sepsis Scenarios
2. Trauma
3. Essential Nursing Cares (eye)

1. Arterial Blood Sampling
2. Chest X-Ray Interpretation

Intensive Care terms from around the world include ICU, ITU, Critical Care.

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