Research Assignments

Nursing Care of Clients in

Critical Care Conditions
Psychosocial and Spiritual Alterations and Management
• Stress and Psychoneuroimmunology
• Post-Traumatic Stress Reactions
• Anxiety
• Alterations in Self-Concept
• Risk for Compromised Human Dignity
• Spiritual Challenges in Critical Care
• Coping with Stress and Illness
• Holistic Psychosocial-Spiritual Care
• Communicate with Compassion and Care
• Practice Dignity-Enhancing Care
• Support Patient Coping
• Provide Family-Centered Care
• Engage Spiritual Resources Patients with Mental Health Co-
Morbidities
• Nurse Self-Care
Sleep Alterations and Management in Critical Care
• Normal Human Sleep
• Pharmacology
• Sleep Pattern Disturbance
• Sleep Apnea Syndrome
Nutrition Alterations and Management In Critical Care
• Nutrient Metabolism
• Assessing Nutritional Status
• Implications of Undernutrition for the Sick or Stressed Patient
• Nutrition Support
• Nutrition and Cardiovascular Alterations
• Nutrition and Pulmonary Alterations
• Nutrition and Neurologic Alterations
• Nutrition and Renal Alterations
• Nutrition and Gastrointestinal Alterations
• Nutrition and Endocrine Alterations
Pain and Pain Management in Critical Care Nursing
• Importance of Pain Assessment
• Definition and Description of Pain
• Pain Assessment
• Pain Management

Sedation, Agitation, Delirium: Assessment and Management

• Sedation
• Agitation
• Delirium
• Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome and Delirium Tremens
• Collaborative Management
End-of-Life Issues in Critical Care
• End-of-Life Experience in Critical Care
• Ethical and Legal Issues
• Comfort Care
• Communication and Decision Making
• Withdrawal or Withholding of Treatment
• Palliative Care
• Withdrawal of Mechanical Ventilation
• Professional Issues
• Organ Donation
• Family Care
• Collaborative Care in End-of-Life care
Critical Care Unit Equipment
• Images of Critical Care unit Equipment
Critical Care Unit Set Up
• Sample Images of Critical Care Unit Rooms and Set up Images with
equipments