Critical Care Nursing Programme

Aim
This course is designed to;
Enable Intensive Care Nurses/Critical Care Nurses to possess a unique body of knowledge in order to provide competent and compassionate care to critically ill patients and their families.
To promote excellence in critical care

Training Mode:
In-service

Contents:

Module 1

  • Critical Care Nursing Practice: an integration of caring, competency, and commitment to excellence.
  • Building a professional practice model for excellence in CCN
  • The family’s experience with critical illness
  • Relieving pain and providing comfort
  • Impact of the critical care environment on the patient
  • Patient and family education in Critical Care
  • Ethical Issues
  • Legal Issues
  • The patient’s experience with critical illness
  • The critically ill pediatric patient
  • Critically ill pregnant woman
  • Critically ill older patient
  • Post anesthesia patientInter-facility transport of the critically ill patie

Module 2

  • Cardiovascular System
  • Respiratory System
  • Renal System
  • Nervous System
  • Gastrointestinal System
  • Endocrine System
  • Hematological and Immune System
  • Integumentary System
  • Multisystem Dysfunction