NS5512:03
Intensive Care Nursing 2
| External | HECS Band 1 |
40 hours flexible delivery plus a minimum employment of 0.6 FTE in an appropriate clinical facility is required for the duration of the subject, or as negotiated with the course coordinator. Semester 1 and 2.
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.