NU 4711C - Nursing Care of Clients with Complex Episodic Health Challenges (ASD)

• Provide competent, caring, holistic nursing care to critically ill individuals and their families through analytical use of the nursing process (Level 4, Nursing Care)
• Employ effective communication skills with client/family and healthcare providers in the critical care environment. (Level 4, Communication)
• Incorporate principles of health promotion, health maintenance, and health restoration to empower clients to achieve optimal health (Level 4, Nursing Care)
• Integrate how caring for clients with complex episodic health challenges has impacted his/her philosophy of nursing (Level 4, Professional Role)
• Demonstrate initiative to seek out new learning opportunities and expand knowledge base establishing a pattern for lifelong learning (Level 4, Professional Role)
• Integrate advanced technology when providing nursing care for clients in the critical care setting (Level 4, Technology)
• Collaborate with other health care team members to identify nursing care outcomes appropriate to the critical care environment (Level 4, Collaboration)
• Integrate critical thinking skills in interpreting assessment data, interventions and evaluation of nursing care necessary in critical situations/settings (Level 4, Critical Thinking)
• Synthesize research findings and knowledge from the humanities and sciences into nursing practice within the critical care environment (Level 4, Evidence-based Practice)

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• Introduction to critical care nursing
• Care of client requiring hemodynamic monitoring
• Care of the client (adult and child) with shock/sepsis
• Care of the patient (adult and child) with acute respiratory failure/ARDS
• Care of the vented client and ventilatory weaning response
• Care of the adult/child with cardiac alterations: acute myocardial infarction (AMI), pulmonary edema, PTCA with thrombolytics
• Care of patient (adults and child) with Increased intracranial pressure/head injury
• Care of children with growth and development dysfunctions
• Care of the clients receiving sedation and anxiolysis
• Care of patients with acute renal and liver failure, drug overdose
• Care of patients (adult and child) with life threatening fluid and electrolyte imbalances, DKA/SIADH/DI
• Care of patients with acute GI bleed/pancreatitis
• Care of patients’ nutritional needs in critical care
• Family process/family coping/Individual stress ethical/legal issues in critical care
• Care of patients with Immunological function/bleeding disorders/blood dyscrasias/DIC
• Care of the trauma patient
• Organ donation
• Care of client with organ transplant

• Psychomotor skills: hemodynamic monitoring; ICP monitoring; mechanical ventilation; neonatal assessment
• Simulations: in-class simulations - hemodynamic and shock focus; cardiac and respiratory focus; infant, GI, growth and development focus; multi-system organ failure and family stress/coping focus; termination of life support focus; lab simulations - skills verification; care of patient with hemodynamic and cardiac rhythm instability; code four
• Clinical focus: critical care (adult and child/neonatal)