NS5512:03
Intensive Care Nursing 2
Townsville
13 tutorials, 160 hours practicals, 26 hours flexible delivery. First and second semester.
Applicants are required to be eligible for registration as a nurse in Queensland or elsewhere in Australia; hold a recognised undergraduate degree in nursing or a related discipline or its equivalent as approved by the Head of the School of Nursing Sciences; have 12 months minimum postgraduate clinical experience.
This subject will build on students’ previous learning in the subject Intensive Care Nursing I. Subject content increases in complexity and students will have the opportunity to apply theoretical and practical knowledge to patients with multifactorial complex health problems. Students will also be introduced to advanced practices such as: trauma management, advanced life support and advanced technological intervention.
Learning Objectives:
- apply knowledge and skills to implement and evaluate contemporary intensive care nursing practice in relation to patient and family-centred care;
- demonstrate critical assessment and advanced monitoring of intensive care patients within the context of a technological environment;
- apply an advanced problem-solving approach to plan and implement individualised nursing care for critically ill patients.
Assessment by clinical competencies, assignment, examinations.