NURSING: GATEWAY TO THE CRITICAL CARE PROGRAM
This unique program provides an excellent opportunity for new to practice nurses to develop the skills needed to become safe and competent in critical care.
Working in collaboration with experienced ICU Nurse preceptors, Gateway participants will follow a structured educational plan that outlines and defines competency expectation, patient assignment and preceptor/learner responsibilities.
This is a 16-20 week program consisting of classroom
instruction, clinician supervised skill labs
in state-of-the-art clinical labs, and 11-14 weeks
of structured clinical experiences at staged levels.
Through lectures, discussions, videotapes, self-learning
modules, simulation and clinical experience, you'll
gain the basic knowledge and skills necessary to care
for critically ill patients.
Some of the core competencies include:
- Airway and ventilator management
- Cardiac monitoring
- Critical care pharmacology
- Hemodynamic monitoring
- Arterial blood gases analysis / acid-based balance
- Pain / sedation / neuromuscular blockade
- End of life care
The Department of Nursing Development and Education
will partner with your clinical nurse manager
and preceptor to support and assist you through
the completion of the program.
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