Critical Care Nursing

Course aim

To enable registered nurses to develop the specialist knowledge and skills to manage and lead the provision of comprehensive, evidence based nursing care to critically ill clients across the lifespan.

Course content

Evidenced based practice in critical care nursing, comprehensive nursing assessment including advanced data collection and interpretation, clinical reasoning, problem solving and decision making, comprehensive care planning and nursing management of the patient with complex critical illnesses, use of technology, paediatric and obstetric considerations (including resuscitation), retrieval of the critically ill patient, clinical leadership, nursing accountability, clinical governance, scope of practice, professional, legal and ethical aspects of nursing care.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
NURS 5172	Introduction to High Acuity Nursing and Midwifery

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
EXTERNAL, CITY EAST, ONLINE
External (Online delivery)	- x 13 weeks
Online (Online discussion forums)	13 weeks x Weekly
Online (Online virtual classroom)	90 minutes x 7 alternate weeks
Workshop (On campus)	6 hours x 2 days

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Clinical assessment/OSCE/OSCA, Contribution, Essay, Learning log/Journal

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.250
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 1)
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Fee-paying program for domestic and international students
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.