The Professional Master’s Degree Intensive Care Nursing of TECH trains experts to check and administer anesthesia and manage the procedures needed during the patient’s stay in intensive care.
TECH Technological University developed the Professional Master’s Degree Intensive Care Nursing since it is one of the most specialized services today and is essential to have an expert with great precision in nursing techniques and care throughout the recovery process for patients with a serious prognosis or elevated risk of presenting complications.
The content for this master is focused on the latest updates for the provision of care in intensive care areas, whose functions require important levels of qualification.
Specifically, is crucial to count on an expert focused on anesthesia which is the use of drugs to prevent pain during the surgery and other procedures, the nurses from TECH will get the latest updates needed to administer this by injection, inhalation, topical lotion, spray, eye drops, or skin patch.
On this wise, it is important to understand that there are several distinct types of anesthesia:
- Local anesthesia: Numbs a small part of the body. It can be used on a small area around a wound that needs stitches. The patient is awake and alert during local anesthesia.
- Regional anesthesia: It is used for larger areas of the body, such as an arm, leg, or anything below the waist, during childbirth, or minor surgeries. Also, the patient may be awake during the procedure or may be given sedatives.
- General anesthesia: Affects the entire body. It leaves the patient unconscious and unable to move. It is used during major operations, such as heart surgery, brain surgery, back surgery, and organ transplants.
In this way, the students from TECH will learn 100% online with the development of more than 100 clinical cases presented by nursing professionals who are experts in intensive care, assessment, and monitoring of the critically ill patient, practical cases, theory, comprehensive systematized action plans for pathologies, forums and more to get successful training to respond to the needs of patients in critical condition with criteria of efficiency, scientific rigor and the highest professional level.
The structure of each module was designed by a team of professionals and treat topics such as organization and management of an Intensive Care Unit, assessment, and monitoring of the critically ill patient, vital support, critical care in patients with cardiocirculatory disorders, critical care in patients with respiratory disorders, care in patients with neurological disorders, digestive and renal pathology in the ICU and other pathologies, critical care in the severely traumatic patient, pharmacology in intensive care, hospital transport, lab work, anesthesia, radiology and surgery, among others.
Re-Learning method
The Professional Master’s Degree Intensive Care Nursing of TECH is developed entirely online. During the 12 months of training, the student has access to the program’s contents at any time and from any device, allowing them to self-manage the study time with maximum flexibility and adapt to each student’s schedule.
It has its own learning method, ‘Re-Learning’, based on asynchrony and self-management. The contents are presented in an attractive and dynamic way in multimedia capsules that include audio, videos, images, diagrams, and conceptual maps to corroborate knowledge.
TECH Technological University
TECH Technological University, the world’s largest university, is also the official online university of the NBA (National Basketball Association) in Latin America. It belongs to the TECH educational group, a Spanish-owned multinational recognized by the Financial Times as one of the 200 fastest-growing companies in Europe.
The company, founded and directed by Manuel Sánchez-Cascado de Fuentes, has also been considered the most highly valued Spanish technology company in the last 15 years.
Thanks to its fully digital learning system, it supplies training to students from anywhere in the world. An international trajectory has allowed it to become a benchmark in distance learning, with a catalogue of over 10,000 programs, over 100,000 new students each year, and 500,000 graduates from over 150 countries.
Specialized in highly qualified postgraduate programs, they offer their students the best training programs at an international level, being leaders in employability with 99% of their students working in the first twelve months, according to data from the consulting firm KPMG.
