Psychosocial and Culturally Competent Care

What is holistic nursing?

What is critical care nursing?

Critical care nursing requires:

Patients perception of critical illness

Critical care patients are admitted due to

Threat of helplessness/loss of control

Patient relatives - value

Types of care in critical care

What is psychosocial care?

What is culturally competent care?

Stressors of critical illness and srugery

Cultural sensitivity

Cultural considerations: death and dying

Care at end of life

Cultural considerations - paediatrics

ICU psychosis

What causes ICU psychosis

Medical causes of ICU psychosis