Delivered in partnership with Beaumont Hospital, the one-year part-time Postgraduate Diploma in Intensive Therapy Nursing offers you the opportunity to enhance your knowledge, experience and clinical expertise in the challenging and dynamic environment that is critical care.
The role of the nurse as clinician, patient advocate, researcher, educator and innovator are all developed to meet the multiple and complex needs of the patient with critical illness.
Learning outcomes
This programme will provide you with the skills and knowledge to critically:
•Discuss, evaluate and demonstrate the management of patients who require advanced cardiac life support.
•Evaluate the inter facility and inter/intra hospital transportation of critically ill patients.
•Evaluate and demonstrate the holistic assessment of the patient presenting with organ failure
•Explore the aetiology and path physiology of organ failure in critical illness
•Evaluate and demonstrate nursing practice and interventions in the management of critically ill patients.
•Evaluate the nursing management of critically ill patients post major surgery.
Why study nursing and midwifery at RCSI Dublin?
Educating future leaders in healthcare delivery and related research is at the core of the mission of the RCSI School of Nursing & Midwifery. The School aims to develop caring, reflective nursing and midwifery practitioners who can seek out and use research-based knowledge to improve patient care.
We are committed to providing students with outcome-focused curricula shaped by innovative teaching and learning practices. We have a long association with postgraduate nursing and midwifery education and are the largest such school in Ireland.
We aspire to become recognised leaders in the provision of health sciences education, both nationally and internationally. The suite of programmes we offer nurses and midwives in pursuit of postgraduate education is continually evolving in response to the needs within the healthcare service.
Our goal is to empower nurses and midwives to be able to demonstrate the difference they make to practice, and in doing so, to be able to respond accordingly to the leadership and professional challenges that they face every day.