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    Critical care nursing involves providing specialized nursing care to critically ill patients with life-threatening conditions. A critical care nurse is responsible for ensuring optimal care for critically ill patients and their families. Critical care nursing roles include meeting intensive care goals, providing holistic and skilled nursing care, establishing relationships, promoting communication, acting as an advocate, teacher, surrogate, counselor, collaborator, coordinator, and leader. Critical care also involves sick patients, technical equipment, and experienced staff to treat patients and use equipment.

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    Critical care nursing involves providing specialized nursing care to critically ill patients with life-threatening conditions. A critical care nurse is responsible for ensuring optimal care for critically ill patients and their families. Critical care nursing roles include meeting intensive care goals, providing holistic and skilled nursing care, establishing relationships, promoting communication, acting as an advocate, teacher, surrogate, counselor, collaborator, coordinator, and leader. Critical care also involves sick patients, technical equipment, and experienced staff to treat patients and use equipment.

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    Critical care nursing involves providing specialized nursing care to critically ill patients with life-threatening conditions. A critical care nurse is responsible for ensuring optimal care for critically ill patients and their families. Critical care nursing roles include meeting intensive care goals, providing holistic and skilled nursing care, establishing relationships, promoting communication, acting as an advocate, teacher, surrogate, counselor, collaborator, coordinator, and leader. Critical care also involves sick patients, technical equipment, and experienced staff to treat patients and use equipment.

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    Critical Care Nursing: Concepts & Principles

    Critical Care Nursing: Specialized Nursing Care of critically – ill patients who have immediate
    life threatening or potentially life-threatening illness or injury.
    ACCCN’s Critical care Nursing

    Critical Care Nurse: A Critical Care Nurse is a licensed professional nurse who is responsible
    for ensuring that acutely and critically ill patients and their families receive optimal care.

    Critical Care Nursing- Roles


     Helps in meeting goals of Intensive Nursing care
     Provides Holistic Nursing Care
     Provides Competent & Skilled Nursing care
     Establishes Interpersonal relationships
     Promote effective Communication
     Act as a Advocate
     Act as a Teacher
     Act as a Surrogate
     Act as a Counselor
     Aids in effective Clinical Decision –Making
     Act as a Collaborator & Coordinator
     Act as a Leader
     Keeps herself well-versed with the new evidence, technologies, equipments etc.
     Participates in Infection Control Measures.
     Active in Quality Assurance programs

    Critical Care – Components


     Sick patients
     Highly technical & expensive equipment
     Staff with the knowledge & experience to treat the patients & use of equipments

    Levels of Critical Care


     Level – I –Monitoring/ Observation
     Level – II –Extensive Nursing Care Requirements
     Level-III- Constant Physician Care

    Critical Care Nursing – Concepts


     Holistic Care
     Therapeutic Relations
     Communication
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     Stress & Adaptation
     Trans-cultural Nursing care
     Team
     Complimentary & Alternative Therapies
     Environmental Alterations
     Legal & Ethical Issues
     Expertise
     Leadership & Management
     Critical thinking

    Critical Care Nursing – Principles


     Recognition of the Objectives
     Setting up of ICU
     Orientation of staff
     Selection of the patients
     Planned Care- Nursing Process
     Meeting Basic needs
     Providing Advanced nursing Care
     Promotion of Comfort
     Pain Management – Sedation & Analgesia
     Prevention of Critical Incidents
     Life & Death Issues
     Grief & loss
     Critical Issues
     Counseling sessions
     Critical thinking & Decision Making Skills
     Multidisciplinary Approach
     Effective Communication
     Continuity of Care
     Leadership & Management
     Team-effort
     Infection-Control Measures
     Legal & Ethical Issues
     In-service education programs
     Quality Assurance programs
     Policies & Protocols
     Standards

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