Critical Care Nursing

To know nursing care management methods for the person with biophysiological, physiopathological, psychological and socio-cultural manifestations and signs related to the critical situation, from data collection to evaluation of interventions and outcome. To early recognize emergency clinical situations which require first aid actions in order to provide survival and adequate and effective nursing care.
To acquire knowledge to manage emergency clinical situations and to be able to develop specific nursing plans in situations of high complexity of care, in the emergency room and intensive care unit.
To know the main procedures of intervention in cases of disaster.

The student will identify nursing care needs and will describe the significant interventions for the critically ill patient with particular regard to assisting the patient with severe trauma
The student will describe emergency clinical situations which require first aid actions.
The student will identify the general principles of nursing triage in trauma.
The student will describe the main modalities of intervention in case of disaster with identification of priorities.
The student will describe the etiopathogenetic and pathophysiological mechanisms of the relevant pathologies in critical care, the signs and symptoms and the diagnostic and therapeutic indications
and the patient's nursing needs in the emergency room with urgent or emergency pathology.
The student will calculate the dosage and dilution of drugs in critical care settings.