MCN 522: Clinical Cardiology (Pediatrics, Adults) & Intensive care

This course introduces the registered nurse to the specialty of clinical cardiology for patients across the age spectrum and their care in the intensive care setting. The course demonstrates how the disruption to one of the five major systems can lead to more widespread dysfunction in other systems whilst describing in detail the pathophysiology of ischemic heart disease and the various risk factors that are attributed to its development. The students will develop the knowledge, skills and attributes required in assessing and managing patients with ischemia, angina and myocardial infarction. Further, the course unpacks the more critical nursing considerations required when caring for an individual managed in the intensive care unit (ICU). Further, students will be introduced to specific knowledge, skills and attributes requisite to ICU setting. At the completion of the course, the students will be able to predict appropriate ICU management considerations when presented with typical ICU case scenarios. Further, they will be able to identify possible risks and the nursing management actions that would mitigate these risks. Finally, the students will be able to explain the development, assessment and management of ischemic heart disease be able to assess rhythm strips and 12 Lead ECGs for aberrant arrhythmias as well ischemia, injury and infarction changes.