critical care nursing

 Critical Care Nursing

Critical care nursing is that speciality within nursing which deals specifically with human responses to life - threatening problems.

Critical Care Nurse 

A critical care nurse is licensed professional nurse who is responsible for ensuring that acutely and critically ill patients and their families receive optimal care.

Critical Care Unit

Critical care unit is a specially designed and equipped facility staffed by skilled personnel to provide effective and safe care for patients with a life threatening problem that is potentially reversible.

Goals of Critical Care

1. Towards servival of critical ill patients and restoring normal life 

2. Restoring optimal physiological, psychological, social and spiritual well being 

3. Helping families of critically ill patient in coping.