Advanced Clinical Concepts and Professional Role for Critical Care Advanced Practice Providers…

Catalog description

This course examines the complexities of caring for critically ill patients within the modern ICU. Advanced concepts of critical care diagnosis, management and therapeutics are analyzed. Patient cases are evaluated within established professional standards of practice and alternative management strategies are discussed and analyzed. Care provided in patient cases is compared to the quality and safety (QSEN) competencies and strategies to improve care are described. Professional behaviors such as teamwork and collaboration and other interprofessional collaborative competencies are developed within practitioners and demonstrated and applied in simulations. Prerequisites: Admission to the Penn Medicine Critical Care Advanced Practitioner Fellowship or By Permission Only.