Learning Outcomes:
On completion of this module students will be able to:
1. Demonstrate awareness of the evidence - based theory that underpins the care of the intensive care patient in the Blackrock
Clinic Intensive Care Unit.
2. Demonstrate the ability to conduct a comprehensive physical assessment on the critically ill patient for the purposes of
planning nursing care
3. Demonstrate the ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate holistic, patient - centred nursing care .
4. Demonstrate competence in the technical skills required in the management of the intensive care patient.
5. Demonstrate the capacity to apply critical thinking when managing a patient who has respiratory compromise and is
haemodynamically unstable.