Trauma/Critical Care Nursing

Catalog description

Focuses on the impact of and the nursing care of persons experiencing acute trauma and/or critical illness. NURS 440 NURS 440 Trauma/Critical Care Nursing (3) NURS 440 is designed as an introductory study of the impact of like-threatening physical problems across the life-span utilizing the nursing process. The course focuses on problems encountered in the hospital critical care setting and is a nursing elective. Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to meet the following objectives: Integrate knowledge from nursing and related disciplines into case study format for persons with life-threatening illnesses; Explore practice, ethical, legal and interpersonal dimensions within the critical care setting. Identify problems for nursing critical care research. Study the most common illnesses in the critical care setting for the neurological, respiratory, cardiac, renal, gastro-intestinal, trauma and multiple system organ failure systems. Students incorporate academic learning with some case study review to simulate the critical care setting. Success in the course is evaluated by in-class examinations, assigned research readings, and written critiques. NURS 440 is offered in the spring semester only, with an average enrollment of 40 students.