By the end of this program, the participants will be able to:

• Identify ICU-specific scales for assessing pain and sedation

• Discuss the importance of medication safety

• Utilize a consistent and systematic approach to assessment of critically ill patients

• Uncover assessment priorities for different types of assessment; pre-arrival assessment, admission assessment, doorway assessment, and focused assessment.

• Explain resuscitation in a hemorrhaging patient and important considerations

• Interpret common lab value abnormalities, including CBC and CMP

• Verbalize the priorities for a patient who is a potential donor

• Discuss how to contact Donor network

• Discuss strategies for nurse retention and personal resilience and satisfaction

• Summarize resources for life-long learning such as the offerings of the AACN and requirements to take the CCRN exam

• Demonstrate how to perform a neuro assessment and evaluate assessment findings that require immediate intervention

• Outline the treatment plan for a patient with an ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke, seizures, and increased intracranial pressure

• Identify common heart rhythms and dysrhythmias, including those found on a 12-lead ECG

• Discuss the etiology, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, patient needs and principles of management of patients in heart failure, cardiomyopathy, shock, and hypertensive crisis

• Identify common complications and complication management for patients with a STEMI

• Demonstrate how to safely manage a PA Catheter and interpretation of waveforms for CVP, RAP, RVP, PA Pressure, and PCWP

• Explain the use of medications used to improve CO and increase/decrease Preload/Contractility/afterload

• Identify common types of shock (hypovolemic, cardiogenic, obstructive, and neurogenic) seen in critical care

• Review the pathophysiology and etiology of common types of shock

• Interpret blood gas results for acid base and oxygen abnormalities

• Discuss the nursing care and management of the mechanically ventilated patient

• Demonstrate priorities of care of a patient with respiratory distress, respiratory failure, and ARDS

• Summarize considerations in caring for a patient with renal failure in critical care, including pre-, intra-, and post-renal failure

• Compare and contrast different patients with complaints of abdominal pain

• Differentiate between upper and lower GI bleeds

• Explain the care and considerations of a post partum patient

• Recognize potential complications of pregnancy and deliver including: prolapsed cord, pp hemorrhage, pre eclampsia, miscarriage, placenta previa, abruptio placentae

• Identify the four components of the 3-hour Sepsis bundle and the 2 items of the 6-hour sepsis bundle as described by the Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines

• Discuss the care and hemodynamics for patients with different stages of Sepsis

• Assess a standardized patient exhibiting signs and symptoms of delirium, identify predisposing and precipitating risk factors, and make care recommendations from the perspective of the interprofessional team to minimize the likelihood of death or severe long-term morbidity.