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NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders) http://www.nicheprogram.org/ announced the release of "Critical Care Nursing of Older Adults."
The web-based course provides evidence-based guidelines for nurse clinicians working with older adults in critical care units, step-down-units, and trauma and emergency departments.
Six modules address clinical and management aspects related to the specialized needs of critically ill older adults. They include:
- The Context for Critical Care Nursing of Older Adults
- Infection, Sepsis and Immune Function in Older Adults
- Understanding and Managing Sleep Disorders in Older Adult Patients in the ICU
- Heart Failure in the Critically Ill Older Patient
- Acute Respiratory Failure and Mechanical Ventilation in the Older Adult
- Delirium in Critical Illness
According to NICHE, the course was created in response to older adults overwhelmingly representing the majority of patients receiving critical care worldwide.
Content is based on the book, "Critical Care Nursing of Older Adults Best Practices (3rd ed.)," edited by M. D. Foreman, K. Milisen, and T. Fulmer (published by Springer Publishing Company, 2010). Marie Boltz, PhD, GNP, BC, is the editor of the course. Julie Davey, MSN, APRN, BC, served as consultant.
The completed course provides 6 contact hours. The course can be accessed by NICHE hospitals in the online NICHE Knowledge Center at http://www.nicheprogram.org/knowledge_center.
A program of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at New York University College of Nursing, the vision of NICHE is for all patients 65 and older "to be given sensitive and exemplary care." To learn more, visit http://www.nicheprogram.org/
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