Intensive Care Nurse Courses

Intensive Care Nurses are qualified RNs who provide nursing support and acute care to patients with life-threatening and dangerous conditions. They work in a team of specialist doctors, consultants, nurse managers and practitioners, and may care for patients who have suffered burns or trauma, newborn babies, people with heart conditions and chronic illness, and patients who need surgery.

As an Intensive Care Nurse you could be administering medication and intravenous fluids to a patient, recording and analysing the core vitals of a patient, reporting an anomaly to the doctor, updating patient records, checking ventilators and monitors to ensure they are working correctly, reassuring the partner of an unconscious patient, or just taking a self-care day to rest and rejuvenate.

Intensive care nursing can be highly stressful and to succeed in this occupation you must be clear-headed in an emergency, able to make sound nursing decisions, and have excellent interpersonal and communication skills.