Program Description:

 Critical care nursing is a subspecialty of nursing program, which deals with life-threatening conditions and advanced interventions. Critical care nurses as professional nurses are responsible for delivering high quality care to critically ill patients and their families.

The graduates of this program will be working in one of the following positions:

 Critical care units in hospitals such as ICU, CCU hemodialysis unit, emergency unit, transplant unit, etc.

 Critical care unit in hospice

 Acute palliative care centers

 Research centers and knowledge-based companies, and technology developing centers

 Other fields that require critical care nursing

 Provision of critical care nursing as home care

Definition 

Critical Care Nursing is one of the most distinguished branches of nursing profession, which, by improving nursing care, management, education, ethic, and professional behavior, tries to reduce mortality and illness complications in critical care settings.

Objectives:

The Objectives of the program is to train proficient, knowledgeable, competent, ethically aware, and responsible professionals who would have sufficient knowledge and abilities to work confidently in their main area of expertise (care of critically ill patients) and also to give them extra abilities such as:

1. To improve nursing knowledge and skills
2. To give better vision and ability to deliver high standard nursing care to patients in critical care units
3. To improve; interpersonal, group and electronic communications skills, lifelong learning, research, management, problem solving skills
4. To improve knowledge and skills in professional manner and behavior
5. To improve IT skills and data retrieve
6. To improve necessary knowledge and skills in relation to management, organization, planning and training of critical care nurses
7. To improve nursing knowledge and skills by participating in training courses and study as well as continuous self-evaluation
8. To improve the abilities of critical thinking and problem solving General Competencies

Communication skills, interviewing, reporting, critical thinking, professionalism as well as:

• Concepts and theories in nursing
• Evidence-based practice
• Research methodology in nursing
• Statistics for nursing research

Specific Competencies and Skills (Special Qualifications)

• To deliver skilled and evidenced-based nursing care and intervention for patients who need intensive care
• To assess patients non-invasively and help invasive assessment of patients in critical care units
• To interpret and analyze clinical data
• Acquiring qualifications for conducting applied researches and employing the findings to solve nursing problems in the care of patients

Duration: 2.5 years