Faculty of Health Sciences · Nursing · Undergraduate
ECTS: 3 T+P+L: 2+0+0 Departmental Elective
Coordinator: Arş. Gör. Duygu DOKUMACI
Course Objective
The aim of this course is to make the diagnosis of patients with life threatening health problems, ability to provide nursing care systematically and holistically in intensive care unit to gain.
Course Content
This course focuses on the design and organization of the intensive care unit. identification, fluid-electrolyte aid-base unchanges, mechanical ventilation, noninvasive and invasive The monitoring; ECG hemodynamic monitoring, sedation, intracranial pressure increase monitoring, enteral and parenteral nutritional, psychosocial needs of patient and family in intensive care unit; sensory loading, deprivation, anxiety, depression, delirium, infection control and nursing care, basic hygienic care and preventive approaches. Patient care management in student's intensive care units focuses on improving skills.
Required Resources
1.Akyol AD. (2017) Yoğun bakım Hemşireliği. İstanbul tıp Kitapevi 1. Baskı. İstanbul
Recommended Resources
2. Çelik S. (2014). Erişkin Yoğun Bakım Hastalarında Temel Sorunlar Ve Hemşirelik Bakımı. Nobel Tıp Kitapevi. Çapa İstanbul.
Course Learning Outcomes
- To be able to explain the professional, ethical and legal responsibilities of the ICU nurse.
- To be able to make continuous assessment in acute and critical patients in intensive care unit
- To be able to explain the physiopathology of health problems in acute and critical patients in ICU
- To be able to analyze the data of acute and critical patients in intensive care unit, physiological and psychosocial problems early diagnosis.
- To be able to list nursing interventions to maintain system functions in acute and critical patients in intensive care unit.
- To be able to reach new information and maintain individual development of intensive care nursing.
Core Area Distribution
(72) Health%100
Teaching Methods
ExpressionQuestion-AnswerPresentationBrain StormingCase Study
Assessment & Evaluation
HomeworkTesting (Essay / Tests: True-Falls, multiple-choice, short answer, matching)
ECTS / Workload
| Activity | Quantity | Duration (h) | Total Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (Including Exam Week) | 15 | 2 | 30 |
| Out of Class Study Period | 1 | 12 | 12 |
| Midterm | 1 | 12 | 12 |
| Quiz | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Assignment | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| Practice | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Final | 1 | 16 | 16 |
Course Schedule
| Week | Subject | Preparation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Explanation of course objectives, course schedule and homework instructions Professional ethics and legal responsibility of intensive care nursing, Intensive care units, architecture and organization | 5. Debra L. Wiegand (2010) AACN Procedure Manual for High Acuity, Progressive, and Critical Care. American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. Elsevier İnc. |
| 2 | Evaluation of general physical examination, fluid electrolyte and acid-base imbalances of the intensive care patient | 5. Debra L. Wiegand (2010) AACN Procedure Manual for High Acuity, Progressive, and Critical Care. American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. Elsevier İnc. |
| 3 | Respiratory system diagnosis and patient care in mechanical ventilation. | 5. Debra L. Wiegand (2010) AACN Procedure Manual for High Acuity, Progressive, and Critical Care. American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. Elsevier İnc. |
| 4 | Acute respiratory failure, ARDS and nursing care | 5. Debra L. Wiegand (2010) AACN Procedure Manual for High Acuity, Progressive, and Critical Care. American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. Elsevier İnc. . |
| 5 | Cardiovascular system diagnosis and ECG monitoring | 5. Debra L. Wiegand (2010) AACN Procedure Manual for High Acuity, Progressive, and Critical Care. American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. Elsevier İnc. |
| 6 | Treatment of rhythm disorders and nursing care, cardioversion, defibrillation | 5. Debra L. Wiegand (2010) AACN Procedure Manual for High Acuity, Progressive, and Critical Care. American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. Elsevier İnc. |
| 7 | Invasive Hemodynamic monitoring | 5. Debra L. Wiegand (2010) AACN Procedure Manual for High Acuity, Progressive, and Critical Care. American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. Elsevier İnc. |
| 8 | Midterm exam | 5. Debra L. Wiegand (2010) AACN Procedure Manual for High Acuity, Progressive, and Critical Care. American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. Elsevier İnc. |
| 9 | Neurological assessment, care management of the patient with increased intracranial pressure syndrome and sedation | 5. Debra L. Wiegand (2010) AACN Procedure Manual for High Acuity, Progressive, and Critical Care. American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. Elsevier İnc. |
| 10 | Infection control in intensive care patients: Ventilator-related pneumonia, catheter-related bloodstream infection, catheter-related urinary tract infection | 5. Debra L. Wiegand (2010) AACN Procedure Manual for High Acuity, Progressive, and Critical Care. American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. Elsevier İnc. |
| 11 | Surgical site infections and management of the patient with sepsis | 5. Debra L. Wiegand (2010) AACN Procedure Manual for High Acuity, Progressive, and Critical Care. American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. Elsevier İnc. |
| 12 | Diagnosis of nutrition in intensive care patients; Enteral nutrition and nursing care | 5. Debra L. Wiegand (2010) AACN Procedure Manual for High Acuity, Progressive, and Critical Care. American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. Elsevier İnc. |
| 13 | Parenteral nutrition and nursing care in intensive care patients | 5. Debra L. Wiegand (2010) AACN Procedure Manual for High Acuity, Progressive, and Critical Care. American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. Elsevier İnc. . |
| 14 | Basic hygienic care in the intensive care patient and preventive approaches in maintaining skin integrity | 5. Debra L. Wiegand (2010) AACN Procedure Manual for High Acuity, Progressive, and Critical Care. American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. Elsevier İnc. |
| 15 | Psychosocial needs of the nursing care patient and family: sensory overload, withdrawal, anxiety, depression, delirium and nursing care | 5. Debra L. Wiegand (2010) AACN Procedure Manual for High Acuity, Progressive, and Critical Care. American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. Elsevier İnc. |
| 16 | Final exam | 5. Debra L. Wiegand (2010) AACN Procedure Manual for High Acuity, Progressive, and Critical Care. American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. Elsevier İnc. |