Critical Care Program - Online

Comments about Critical Care Program - Online

• Objectives
  This program is designed to enable registered nurses to acquire the necessary knowledge and practice expertise to care for clients in a critical care setting.
• Practical experience
  There is a Clinical Experience aspect associated with this program.
• Entry requirements
  Registered Nurses
• Academic title
  Critical Care Program Completion Certificate
• Course description
  Critical Care Modules
  
  Module One - Introduction to Critical Care Nursing
  
      Focuses on professional issues, individual and family response to critical care issues, as well as other considerations in the critical care setting
  
  Module Two - Tools and Concepts for the Critical Care Nurse
  
      Includes basic electrocardiography, dysrhythmia interpretation, hemodynamic  monitoring, ventilatory assistance, code management and shock
  
  Module Three - Nursing Care for Specific Alterations
  
      Focuses on alterations in the cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological, renal, gastrointestinal and endocrine systems
  
  Module Four - Multi-System Alterations
  
      Includes seven identified content areas as well as special considerations and critical care assessments.
  
  Clinical Experience
  
  Upon successful completion of the theoretical and laboratory components of the program, a four-to-six week preceptored clinical experience in a critical care setting is required.  Learners with prior critical care clinical experience may opt to complete a clinical project in their own setting.
  
  The laboratory component, clinical experience/project will be evaluated using the pass/fail grading scheme.
  
  Learners will be accommodated in their own geographic region as much as possible.

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