GICU is a multicultural discipline. The GICU Mini Course is designed to prepare the new nurse to work competently by enhancing previously acquired professional education and development critical inquiry, knowledge and skills, attributes and competencies to meet the GICU standard of care.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

1. To familiarize the new staff with the GICU environment.
2. To review the system and identify the alterations in patient’s hemodynamics
3. To mould new staff to be a Holistic Critical Care Nurse.
4. Interactive teaching to initiate Critical Thinking.

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

The GICU Mini Course is an interactive eight-hour program that caters to GICU newly joined staff nurses, one year and below. It will be a small group with 6-8 participants with two instructors.

Evaluation will be done individually through actual patients care performance within a twelve hour shift. Evaluation will determine:

• Nursing Management of critically ill patient
• Documentation
• Critical Thinking
• Knowledge
• Time management

The course will be held every Monday commencing 11^th August 2008.

COURSE FACILITIES:

The course will utilize the resources within the GICU.

SUBJECTS:

1. ICU Environment
   1. Set-up
      1. Monitors
         1. Calibrations
         2. Trouble-shootings
      2. Bed and the bedsides
      3. Crash trolleys
      4. Stocks/supplies
   2. Ethics
   3. Attitudes

2. Introduction to Holistic Critical Care

3. GICU Documentations
   1. High Dependency Flow Chart
   2. Protocols
   3. Special Forms

4. System Review
   1. Central Nervous System
   2. Cardio-Vascular System
   3. Respiratory System
   4. Gastrointestinal Tract
   5. Genitourinary Tract
   6. Integumentary System

5. Arrhythmias

6. Time Management

7. Infection Control

8. Wound Care Management

9. Drugs
   1. Sedations and Paralysis
   2. Vaso-pressors and Inotropes
   3. Antibiotics and Special Infusions

10. GICU Procedures
    1. Central-Venous Line
    2. Quinton Line
    3. Chest Drain
    4. Pleural Tapping
    5. Percutaneuos Tracheostomy
    6. Intubation
    7. Pulmonary Artery
    8. Blood Transfusion
    9. CRRT Fluid Management
    10. Lumbar Puncture
    11. Patient Transport
    12. Post Mortem Care

PROGRAM SCHEDULE:

0700H – 0830H - ICU Environment

Holistic Critical Care Nursing

Documentation

0830H – 0845H - Break

0845H – 1015H - System Review

1045H – 1045H - Arrhythmias

1045H – 1145H - Time Management

1145H – 1245H - Lunch

1245H – 1315H - Infection Control

1315H – 1345H - Wound Care Management

1345H – 1400H - Break

1400H – 1600H - GICU Procedures