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:

Objectives

 * 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

Your Tasksː Knowledge & Skills To Learn

 * 1) Learning objectives for the ICU nurse.

General

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

Neurological

 * 1) /Neurological Assessment/

Cardiovascular

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

Pulmonary

 * 1) /Airway Adjuncts/
 * 2) /Mechanical Ventilator Management/
 * 3) /Prone Position Procedure/

Gastrointestinal

 * 1) /Liver Failure/

Genitourinary

 * 1) /Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy/

Multisystem

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

Diagnostic/Laboratory

 * 1) /Arterial Blood Sampling/
 * 2) /Chest X-Ray Interpretation/

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

Acknowledgments
This resource was initiated by User:ICUnurses.

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