Introduction to critical care nursing

Overview of critical care nursing

Patient and family response to the critical care experience

Ethical and legal issues in critical care nursing

Palliative and end-of-life care

Comfort and sedation

Nutritional support

Dysrhythmia interpretation and management

Hemodynamic monitoring

Ventilatory assistance

Rapid response teams and code management

Organ donation

Shock, sepsis, and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome

Cardiovascular alterations

Nervous system alterations

Acute respiratory failure

Acute kidney injury

Hematological and immune disorders

Gastrointestinal alterations

Endocrine alterations

Trauma and surgical management

Burns.