Critical Care Nursing

Preferred Label : Critical Care Nursing;

NCIt definition : Critical care nursing is that specialty within nursing that deals specifically with human responses to life-threatening problems. A critical care nurse is a licensed professional nurse who is responsible for ensuring that all critically ill patients and their families receive optimal care. (AACN);

Details

Origin ID

C17602;

UMLS CUI

C4551443;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Intensive nursing care (regime/therapy) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Intensive therapy nurse (occupation) [SNOMED CT concept]
- critical care nursing [MeSH Descriptor]
- critical care nursing [MeSH concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Biomedical Occupation or Discipline [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- critical care nursing [MeSH Descriptor]

Keyword's position in hierarchy(ies) :

You can consult :

recommendations
documents concerning education
documents for patients