Full Course Description
Certified Emergency Nurse Certification – CEN® Exam Prep
OUTLINE:
Module One
Physical preparation
Application process
Question interpretation
Practice questions
Study preparations
Successful test-taking strategies
Cardiovascular and Shock Emergencies
Shock
Gastrointestinal Emergencies
Genitourinary, Gynecology, and Obstetrical
Emergencies
Module Two
Maxillofacial & Ocular Emergencies
Neurological Emergencies
Orthopedic and Wound Emergencies
Psychosocial Emergencies
Respiratory Emergencies
Environmental and Toxicology Emergencies
Medical Emergencies and Communicable
Diseases
Professional Issues
OBJECTIVES:
At the completion of this program, you should be able to:
- Identify pearls and pitfalls in both preparing for and taking Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN®) exam.
- Develop a study plan for the exam based on understanding the blueprint and domains of practice covered (didactic/clinical knowledge base concerns).
- Analyze key components of a comprehensive review of systems, including diagnosis and treatment of medical and traumatic pathologies per the official exam blueprint.
- Apply how the core curriculum components of medical and traumatic pathologies are covered in the exam through didactic supplementation and test questions.
- Develop a thorough understanding of professional issues facing the emergency nurse, such as ethical dilemmas, withholding, withdrawing, and palliative care, forensic evidence collection, federal regulations (e.g., HIPAA, EMTALA), triage, and disaster management.
- Apply how the core curriculum components of emergency nursing professional issues are covered in the exam through didactic supplementation and test questions.
- Apply the knowledge gained throughout the day in a comprehensive mini-exam, using realistic questions that simulate typical exam items.
- State three rapid interventions that can stabilize a patient who is symptomatic with a low blood pressure.
- Recognize the most common causes of arterial blood gas abnormalities.
- Identify the three most common dysrhythmias using rhythm strip interpretation.
- Discuss the three biggest concerns patients recognize at the end of life.
- Contrast the difference between hypovolemic shock, septic shock and cardiovascular shock in both assessment and treatment priorities.
- Differentiate the differences between a STEMI and NSTEMI.
Program Information
Outline
Day One
Physical preparation
Application process
Question interpretation
Practice questions
Study preparations
Successful test-taking strategies
Cardiovascular and Shock Emergencies
Shock
Gastrointestinal Emergencies
Genitourinary, Gynecology, and Obstetrical
Emergencies
Day Two
Maxillofacial & Ocular Emergencies
Neurological Emergencies
Orthopedic and Wound Emergencies
Psychosocial Emergencies
Respiratory Emergencies
Environmental and Toxicology Emergencies
Medical Emergencies and Communicable
Diseases
Professional Issues
Objectives
At the completion of this program, you should be able to:
- Identify pearls and pitfalls in both preparing for and taking Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN®) exam.
- Develop a study plan for the exam based on understanding the blueprint and domains of practice covered (didactic/clinical knowledge base concerns).
- Analyze key components of a comprehensive review of systems, including diagnosis and treatment of medical and traumatic pathologies per the official exam blueprint.
- Apply how the core curriculum components of medical and traumatic pathologies are covered in the exam through didactic supplementation and test questions.
- Develop a thorough understanding of professional issues facing the emergency nurse, such as ethical dilemmas, withholding, withdrawing, and palliative care, forensic evidence collection, federal regulations (e.g., HIPAA, EMTALA), triage, and disaster management.
- Apply how the core curriculum components of emergency nursing professional issues are covered in the exam through didactic supplementation and test questions.
- Apply the knowledge gained throughout the day in a comprehensive mini-exam, using realistic questions that simulate typical exam items.
- State three rapid interventions that can stabilize a patient who is symptomatic with a low blood pressure.
- Recognize the most common causes of arterial blood gas abnormalities.
- Identify the three most common dysrhythmias using rhythm strip interpretation.
- Discuss the three biggest concerns patients recognize at the end of life.
- Contrast the difference between hypovolemic shock, septic shock and cardiovascular shock in both assessment and treatment priorities.
- Differentiate the differences between a STEMI and NSTEMI.
Target Audience
Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Nurse Specialists
Copyright :
06/13/2016
Program Information
Outline
Day One
Physical preparation
Application process
Question interpretation
Practice questions
Study preparations
Successful test-taking strategies
Cardiovascular and Shock Emergencies
Shock
Gastrointestinal Emergencies
Genitourinary, Gynecology, and Obstetrical
Emergencies
Day Two
Maxillofacial & Ocular Emergencies
Neurological Emergencies
Orthopedic and Wound Emergencies
Psychosocial Emergencies
Respiratory Emergencies
Environmental and Toxicology Emergencies
Medical Emergencies and Communicable
Diseases
Professional Issues
Objectives
At the completion of this program, you should be able to:
- Identify pearls and pitfalls in both preparing for and taking Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN®) exam.
- Develop a study plan for the exam based on understanding the blueprint and domains of practice covered (didactic/clinical knowledge base concerns).
- Analyze key components of a comprehensive review of systems, including diagnosis and treatment of medical and traumatic pathologies per the official exam blueprint.
- Apply how the core curriculum components of medical and traumatic pathologies are covered in the exam through didactic supplementation and test questions.
- Develop a thorough understanding of professional issues facing the emergency nurse, such as ethical dilemmas, withholding, withdrawing, and palliative care, forensic evidence collection, federal regulations (e.g., HIPAA, EMTALA), triage, and disaster management.
- Apply how the core curriculum components of emergency nursing professional issues are covered in the exam through didactic supplementation and test questions.
- Apply the knowledge gained throughout the day in a comprehensive mini-exam, using realistic questions that simulate typical exam items.
- State three rapid interventions that can stabilize a patient who is symptomatic with a low blood pressure.
- Recognize the most common causes of arterial blood gas abnormalities.
- Identify the three most common dysrhythmias using rhythm strip interpretation.
- Discuss the three biggest concerns patients recognize at the end of life.
- Contrast the difference between hypovolemic shock, septic shock and cardiovascular shock in both assessment and treatment priorities.
- Differentiate the differences between a STEMI and NSTEMI.
Target Audience
Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Nurse Specialists