Paediatric Intensive Care Nursing
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This unit of study has been designed to explore issues specific to nursing practice in a specialist paediatric intensive care setting. Topics explored in this unit of study include advanced concepts in haemodynamic monitoring, ventilation, analgesia and sedation, management of complex cardiac and neurological patients, renal replacement therapies and multi-organ dysfunction syndrome. The unit of study maintains a focus on the collaborative relationship between the nurse and the family/significant others in providing care to the critically ill infant, child or adolescent.
Term :JANUARY, JULY
Hours of Study: 150
Credit Points : 6
The student must be working in an intensive care setting where there is a paediatric case mix
Theme 1: Evolution of paediatric intensive care
Apply knowledge of advanced concepts of invasive monitoring to the early recognition of deterioration in critically ill infants, children and young people
Theme 2: Haemodynamic monitoring
Integrate the use of contemporary assessment tools in the management of critically unstable infants, children and young people
Theme 3: Ventilation
Critically appraise treatment protocols used in paediatric intensive care against current research and evidence based guidelines
Theme 4: Analgesia and sedation
Review the pathophysiology that underpins presentations of critically ill infants, children and young people to inform nursing interventions and optimise outcomes
Theme 5: Postoperative management of the cardiac surgical infant/child
Reflect on the central role of family & culture when negotiating care with infants, children, young people and their families, ensuring inclusive and respectful healthcare delivery
Theme 6: Management of infants/ children with serious neurological insults
Theme 7: Renal replacement therapies
Theme 8: Multiorgan dysfunction syndrome
Theme 9: Stabilisation & transport
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