Critical Care Nursing

Is an area of expertise within nursing that focus specifically with human reponses to life-
threatening problems.
Critical Care Nurse
Is responsible to ensure that critically ill patients are seriously conditioned individuals.
Ensure that families of the medically ill patients should receive optimal care.
Rely upon a dedicated knowledge, skills and experience and of course automated system
of support and intelligent system to provide care to patient and families and create
environments that are healing, compassionate and caring.
Critical Care Applications
Areas where patients require complex assessment, high-intensity medication, continuous
therapy and interventions, and unrelenting nursing attention and continuous watchfulness.
Critical Care Information System
1. Provide real-time resource utilization data and management of information and access
critical care areas through the integration of the medical facilities in the critical care or
intensive care unit to an intelligent computer system which is capable of processing all
data.
2. Enables the electronic collection of hospital and patient-specific critical care data of the
entire patient in the critical care areas which can be processed to create a patient profile
which generate real time and historical report on indicators including bed occupancy,
delayed discharges, readmission rates, and outcomes.
3. Automated collection and management of medical information will become the important
task of the critical care information system.
Medical Information Bus (MIB)
1. Provides a generalized method of attaching patient monitoring devices to a common
interface.
2. This interface converts the unique manufacturer data communications protocol into a
standardized hardware and software system.
3. It eliminates the need for custom connector and software presently needed to interface
such device.
4. Has the ability to filter, store and select information sent for inclusion into the clinical
medical record on the clinical computer system. Infusion pumps, ventilators, pulse, and
other patient equipment are now transmitting clinical information for use in clinical data
reporting and decision making.
Advantages of Critical Care Information System
1. Intelligently integrates and process physiologic and diagnostic information and store it to
secured clinical repository.
2. Creates trends analysis with graphical representation of results.
3. Offline stimulation can be performed to test the condition of the patients.
4. Provide clinical decision support system
5. Provide access to vital patient information
6. Providing feedback and quick evaluation of the patient condition and provides alert.