N/A

This module will provide you with an introduction to Critical Care Nursing and will support provision of underpinning knowledge to support the safe and effective care of critical care patients. In order to promote patient safety, you will engage in a number of different learning experiences to develop and enhance your knowledge, competency skills and technical abilities.

This module will include online and clinical skills sessions incorporating the following:
IT and writing skills.
Pathophysiology specifically relating to sepsis, respiratory failure, acute coronary syndrome, major trauma including head, neck and abdominal trauma.
Evidence base to support best practice when caring of people with critical illness presenting with life threatening conditions
Core critical care skill in respiratory, cardiovascular, renal, gastrointestinal care
Cardiovascular support and pharmacological management in critical care.
Communication and non-technical skills including situational awareness, teamworking and psychological effects of people experiencing and critical and life threatening illness.
Initial assessment and advanced airway and cardiovascular management in the context of critical care .
Ethical issues associated with critical care nursing practice including withdrawing and withholding treatment, organ donation and family witnessed resuscitation.

LO1: Apply knowledge and understanding of normal and altered physiology to the assessment, treatment and management of critically ill patients.
LO2: Implement and evaluate an evidence informed plan of care for the critically ill, promoting safe, effective person-centred care.
LO3: Select,apply and justify core management skills in support and care of the person who is critically ill across a range of clinical scenarios
LO4: Reflect on the ethical and legal issues associated with critical care nursing practice.