Nursing School Course
Recognising deterioration, resuscitating, and managing the multisystem patient.
Critical care foundations and prioritization, hemodynamic monitoring and invasive lines, shock, sepsis and multisystem failure, respiratory failure and mechanical ventilation, vasoactive medications, cardiac, neurologic, renal, endocrine and GI emergencies, trauma, burns and toxicology, and the haematologic, oncologic, immune and infectious emergencies that fill critical-care beds.
Module 1
Early warning, rapid response and critical-care priorities.
18 mapped lessons · lesson practice · module assessment
Module 2
Arterial lines, CVP, cardiac output and waveform interpretation.
10 mapped lessons · lesson practice · module assessment
Module 3
Shock states, resuscitation, the sepsis bundle and MODS.
54 mapped lessons · lesson practice · module assessment
Module 4
ARDS, ventilator modes, ABGs and weaning.
31 mapped lessons · lesson practice · module assessment
Module 5
Pressors, inotropes, sedation and titrated infusions.
7 mapped lessons · lesson practice · module assessment
Module 6
ACS, cardiogenic shock, arrest and mechanical support.
18 mapped lessons · lesson practice · module assessment
Module 7
Raised ICP, stroke, status epilepticus and spinal cord injury.
19 mapped lessons · lesson practice · module assessment
Module 8
AKI, dialysis indications and life-threatening electrolyte shifts.
12 mapped lessons · lesson practice · module assessment
Module 9
DKA, HHS, thyroid storm, GI bleeding and liver failure.
15 mapped lessons · lesson practice · module assessment
Module 10
Trauma survey, burn resuscitation, poisoning, antidotes and code medications.
54 mapped lessons · lesson practice · module assessment
Module 11
Anemias, bleeding disorders, coagulopathy, cancers and oncologic emergencies.
110 mapped lessons · lesson practice · module assessment
Module 12
Autoimmune disease, HIV, hypersensitivity, infection and anti-infective therapy.
155 mapped lessons · lesson practice · module assessment
Lesson titles are drawn from the published library for your program; the full list appears inside the course.
Every lesson has a Full view that teaches the complete topic and a certified Cram view for high-yield review. Cram never adds facts that are not in Full.
Clinical lessons move from introduction and pathophysiology through risk factors, manifestations, assessment, diagnostics, management, nursing considerations, complications, teaching and exam takeaways.
Lesson practice and assessments draw from NurseNest's published question bank for your exam scope — single-best-answer and select-all-that-apply items with rationales for every option, a takeaway and a hint.
Module assessments (20 questions), cumulative reviews (30) and a final (75); passing mark 80%. Missed items link back to the lesson, Cram and flashcards.
