NUR 655 Nursing Practice Critical Care

This course focuses on integration of learning from all other courses to develop and execute the generalist nursing role when providing holistic care to patients with complex or critical care level health problems and their families. Emphasizes care of complex patients, identifying rapid response clinical situations by differentiating emergent, urgent, and non-emergent clinical states; developing, implementing, and evaluating evidence-based nursing interventions to assist in an individual’s participation in their recovery, prevention of complications and sequelae, reduction of risks, and management/stabilization of acute and chronic conditions. 

Credits

3

Prerequisite

NUR 565, NUR 565C, NUR 566, NUR 566C; Pre- or Corequisite: NUR 615, NUR 645.

Corequisite

NUR 655C. Students retaking NUR 655 must also enroll in NUR 655C.