Specialty Nursing (Pediatric – Critical Care Option), Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Part-time

Program Overview

This program provides advanced knowledge and skills in pediatric critical care nursing, including patient assessment, critical thinking, and comprehensive care strategies. It also incorporates management and leadership components, such as decision-making, teaching, and research. Electives allow for specialization in community nursing or health action facilitation.

Program Outline

Outline:

• Program Matrix
• Required Courses:
• NSPE 7100
Pediatric Theory 1: Introduction to pediatric nursing, characteristics of children and families, developmental assessment, medication safety, nutrition, infectious disease prevention, oxygen supply and demand, comprehensive pediatric assessment.
• NSPE 7260 Pediatric Critical Care Nursing Theory 1: Unique and highly specialized area of pediatric critical care, advanced, complex chronic and acute pediatric critical care patient presentations, growth and development stages, pediatric pathophysiology, assessment, decision making, oxygen supply and demand balance, hemodynamic monitoring, arterial blood gas analysis, stress response, neurologic assessment, CPAP/BiPAP, haemodynamic monitoring, pain and sedation assessment, fluid management.
• NSPE 7270 Pediatric Critical Care Theory 2: Advanced, complex chronic and acute pediatric critical care patient presentations, pediatric pathophysiology, assessment, critical thinking, decision making, comprehensive assessment strategies (e.g., hemodynamic monitoring, arterial blood gas analysis), oxygen supply and demand balance optimization (e.g., CPAP/BiPAP, haemodynamic monitoring, pain and sedation assessment, fluid management).
• NSPE 7280 Pediatric Critical Care Theory 3: Complex health concerns, pediatric pathophysiology, assessment, critical thinking, decision making, comprehensive assessment strategies, oxygen supply and demand balance optimization, trauma, neurological injury, burns, septic shock, congenital cardiac defects, cancer, end of life care.
• NSPE 7290 Pediatric Critical Care Nursing Theory 4: Advanced health concerns, comprehensive assessment strategies, oxygen supply and demand balance optimization, acute kidney injury, continuous renal replacement therapy, advanced hemodynamic monitoring, cardiac surgery and open heart admission, pacemaker therapy, cardiogenic shock, advanced ECG interpretation.
• NSPE 7310 Pediatric Critical Care Preceptorship 1: Pediatric critical care environment, influences on patient and family health, theory and framework application, comprehensive assessment skills, patient care for critically ill pediatric patients (e.g., respiratory distress, cardiac failure, acute gastrointestinal illness, hemodynamic instability), oxygen supply and demand, comprehensive assessment, monitoring skills, clinical decision making, patient experiences, safe, competent, and ethical nursing care, collaborative relationships with patients, families, colleagues, instructors, and other health care providers.
• NSPE 7410 Pediatric CC Preceptorship 2: Nursing knowledge application, patient care for critically ill pediatric patients (e.g., trauma, acute respiratory failure, hemodynamic challenges), comprehensive assessment skills, safe, competent, and ethical nursing care, mechanical ventilation, advanced hemodynamic monitoring, collaboration with preceptors, patient and family situations, critical thinking, clinical decision making, ethical issues, family-centred care.
• Core/Management Component:
• Required courses:
• BUSA 7250
Management Skills and Applications: Management skills overview, decision-making skills, planning, organizing, leading, controlling, planning and facilitating change, teamwork, motivational techniques, effective communication.
• NSSC 7115 Teaching and Learning in Specialty Nursing: Diverse perspectives on teaching and learning, teacher-learner relationships, teaching and learning abilities development, mutually agreed upon learning outcomes and intentions.
• NSSC 8000 Systematic Inquiry: Research concepts and processes in quantitative and qualitative paradigms, primary research reports critique, research utilization in practice.
• NSSC 8300 Creative Leadership: Leadership knowledge and skills, contemporary theories and frameworks, followership, contextual influences, power, change and transitions, teambuilding, leadership project to apply knowledge and skills.
• NSSC 8500 Professional Growth: Professional growth exploration, personal, professional, and historical perspectives, critical reflection and journaling, relational practice through mentoring and harmful workplace relationships, ethical practice trends, moral identity development, moral integrity enhancement, professional development trajectory.
• NSSC 8600 Community Nursing: Facilitating Health: Contemporary community health nursing, multiple perspectives on community, health, and relational practice, primary health care, health promotion, ethics, clinical practice focused on facilitating participatory dialogue with a selected group, salient health issues exploration, collective health action facilitation.
• Electives:
• NSSC 8800
Community Nursing: Facilitating Health Action: Contemporary perspectives on health promotion, health protection, community health nursing process, participatory decision making, clinical experience through participatory dialogue with a selected group, health issues exploration, health action facilitation.
• Liberal Studies Component:
• Required courses:
• COMM 7100
Intercultural Communication Competency and Diversity Awareness for Professionals: Dynamic forces enhancing effective communication between persons from various cultural backgrounds, intercultural communication competency development, ICC importance due to rapid globalization.