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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 alldata.
2. Enables the electronic collection of hospital and
patient-specific critical care data of theentire 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 astandardized 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
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