Critical Care to Patients with Cardiorespiratory Alterations

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This course is designed to develop skills for the assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing interventions including the bio -psycho-social and spiritual aspects of the patient with cardio respiratory disturbances and the impa ct to the family unit. It emphasizes health promotion, maintenance and restoration of health considering ethical -legal aspects. Anatomy and physiology of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems are studied from health and disease standpoints. This course includes clinical practice in specialized critical care units, such as intensive coronary, post-surgery intensive care, and intensive medical-surgical units.