Overview
Intensive care nurses care for patients with life-threatening conditions and complex healthcare problems, typically within the intensive care unit of a hospital. Your specialised skills will allow you to anticipate and rapidly respond to changes in your patient’s condition.
As an intensive care nurse you will perform focused, systematic and methodical assessments. You will draw on data from patient and technologically-derived sources in order to provide time-critical interventions to patients requiring complex care for life-threatening illnesses or conditions.
Key information
Unit set code
SP-H000011
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You can study Intensive care as part of the following courses
Master of Advanced Clinical Nursing
Specialise in cardiac, critical care, emergency, intensive care, intraoperative, perianaesthesia or perioperative nursing with Deakin's Master of Advanced Clinical Nursing.