Critical Nursing Care Unit Deck

We introduce CHN 03504: Critical Nursing Care. This 10-hour master curriculum covers principles, pathophysiology, scoring, and clinical management.Our core objectives target human response, physiological restoration, and family crisis mitigation. The primary goal: maximize survival while restoring long-term quality of life.Our clinical framework emphasizes proactive risk anticipation, infection control, interdisciplinary care, and rapid intervention. We focus on high-intensity surveillance and zero-delay clinical response.The 7 Cs Framework for critical care includes compassion, communication, consideration, comfort, carefulness, consistency, and closure. This unifies high-tech ICU interventions with human-centered delivery.Critical care patient classification ranges from standard ward to multi-system failure. Level 3 patients require continuous 24-hour physician and 1:1 nursing surveillance.We utilize key clinical assessment tools like GCS for coma scale, APACHE II for ICU mortality risk, and SOFA for organ failure assessment.The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) breaks down into eye, verbal, and motor responses. A GCS of 8 or less signals severe brain injury, requiring immediate intubation.The APACHE II Mortality Risk Score System helps us predict ICU mortality. Scores above 35 indicate greater than 80% mortality.The Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) tracks organ dysfunction to confirm sepsis. A score increase of 2 points confirms sepsis and high mortality risk.RASS & CAM-ICU Sedation-Delirium Scoring helps us manage patient sedation levels. RASS scales from -5 (unarousable) to +4 (combative).