Ian Peate OBE FRCN is Senior Lecturer, Roehampton University; Visiting Professor of Nursing, St George's University of London and Kingston University London; Visiting Professor, Northumbria University; Visiting Senior Clinical Fellow, University of Hertfordshire, and Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Nursing.
Barry Hill is the Director of Education (Employability) for Nursing, Midwifery and Health at Northumbria University. His academic practice includes teaching and learning as well as research which impacts on undergraduate, postgraduate and CPD programmes. He specialises in clinical education relating to acute and critical care, and advanced level practice.

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1. The critical care unit
2. Organisational influences
3. Legal and ethical issues
4. Professional issues in critical care
5. Using an evidence-based approach
6. Nursing care
7. Skin integrity
8. Shock
9. Communication
10. Electronic health records
11. Pharmacology
12. Anaesthesia/sedation
13. Medicines management and drug calculations
14. Neurological
15. Cognition
16. Respiratory care: intubation and mechanical ventilation
17. Lung function in critical care
18. Cardiac physiology
19. Cardiovascular
20. Fluid and electrolytes in critically ill patients
21. Emergencies/recognising and responding to CPR
22. The gastrointestinal system
23. Nutrition in critical care
24. Renal and renal function
25. Endocrine in critical care
26. Haematological issues and the immune system
27. Musculoskeletal considerations in critical care
28. Burn care within a critical care setting
29. Maternal health
30. Critical care transfers
31. Rehabilitation after critical illness
32. Dying and death
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