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    Critical care nursing involves caring for critically ill or unstable patients. Critical care nurses work in intensive care units and emergency departments, providing vigilant care using various technologies. This includes equipment like ventilators, pulse oximetry, hemodynamic monitoring systems, and infusion pumps. Nurses closely monitor patients and participate in end-of-life decision making by supporting patients and families.

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    Critical care nursing involves caring for critically ill or unstable patients. Critical care nurses work in intensive care units and emergency departments, providing vigilant care using various technologies. This includes equipment like ventilators, pulse oximetry, hemodynamic monitoring systems, and infusion pumps. Nurses closely monitor patients and participate in end-of-life decision making by supporting patients and families.

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    Critical care nursing involves caring for critically ill or unstable patients. Critical care nurses work in intensive care units and emergency departments, providing vigilant care using various technologies. This includes equipment like ventilators, pulse oximetry, hemodynamic monitoring systems, and infusion pumps. Nurses closely monitor patients and participate in end-of-life decision making by supporting patients and families.

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    Critical care nursing involves caring for critically ill or unstable patients. Critical care nurses work in intensive care units and emergency departments, providing vigilant care using various technologies. This includes equipment like ventilators, pulse oximetry, hemodynamic monitoring systems, and infusion pumps. Nurses closely monitor patients and participate in end-of-life decision making by supporting patients and families.

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    The key takeaways are that critical care nursing involves caring for patients who are extremely ill or unstable. Critical care nurses work in environments like intensive care units and emergency departments.

    Critical care nursing is a specialty within nursing that focuses on caring for critically ill or unstable patients. Critical care nurses provide intense and vigilant care to patients at high risk of life-threatening health problems.

    Critical care nurses use a variety of technology and equipment in the ICU setting such as cardiac monitors, mechanical ventilators, renal replacement equipment, and pulse oximeters.

    CRITICAL CARE NURSING

    Critical Care

    Is a term used to describe The care of patients who are extremely ill and whose clinical condition is unstable or potentially unstable

    Critical Care Nursing


    The

    field of nursing with a focus on the care of the critically ill or unstable patients. Critical care nurses can be found working in a wide variety of environments and specialties:

    emergency departments critical care /intensive care units


    Critical

    care nursing is that specialty within nursing that deals specifically with human responses to lifethreatening problems. 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. Critically ill patients are those who are at high risk for actual or potential life-threatening health problems. Given their condition, the specialized critical care nurse is required to provide intense and vigilant nursing care.

    Intensive care An unit intensive


    care unit, or ICU, is a specialized section of a hospital that provides comprehensive and continuous care for persons who are critically ill and who can

    Equipments:
    Intensive

    care nurses are also required to be comfortable with a wide variety of technology and its uses in the critical care setting. This technology includes such equipment, as:

    hemodynamic and cardiac monitoring systems, mechanical ventilator therapy ventricular assist devices continuous renal replacement equipment

    Pulse Oximetry
    Reflects

    the arterial oxygen saturation of hemoglobin Saturations of 93% to 99% are normal Not reliable in patients Using vasoconstricting meds In shock, cardiac arrest With severe anemia

    Mechanical Ventilators
    a method to mechanically assist or replace spontaneous breathing when patients cannot do so on their own.

    Endotracheal tube
    The

    tube is inserted into a patient's trachea in order to ensure that the airway is not closed off and that air is able to reach the lungs. The endotracheal tube is regarded as the most reliable available method for protecting a patient's airway.

    Endotracheal tube

    Endotracheal Tube

    Tracheostomy

    tracheosto my are surgical procedures on the neck to open a direct airway through an incision in the trachea

    Parts of a Tracheostomy Tube Tube with inner Cannula

    Hemodynamic monitoring system

    ECG machine

    Continuous renal replacement

    Nurse monitoring a central station for intensive care unit (ICU) equipment.

    Syringe infusion pumps

    Infusion pumps

    Suction machine

    defibrillators

    REASONS FOR ADMISSION TO THE ICU


    Respiratory

    difficulties impairing the clients ability to ventilate or oxygenate problems changes infection or the

    Circulatory Neurologic

    Life-threatening

    risk of infection
    Metabolic Critical

    problems

    post surgery client

    Hemodynamics and other monitoring of critically Ill patients


    vital

    signs Pulmonary Artery Catheter Monitoring MIO Daily weight Noninvasive Cardiac Output devices Intracranial Blood Tests Pressure Monitoring
    Cardiac

    Monitoring

    Who participates in end of life decisionmaking? As a nurse what is your role?

    What Is End-of-Life Decision Making?


    End-of-life

    decision making is the process that healthcare providers, patients, and patients families go through when considering what treatments will or will not be used to treat a lifethreatening illness. Several forms of this decision making are possible. First, advance directives provide an opportunity for patients to express their

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