Full Course Description
Preventing Post-Operative Complications: Module 1
- Implications of Pharmacological & Anesthetic Agents After Surgery
- Patient Education for Discharge Readiness
- New Evidence-Based Practice Standards
- Malignant Hyperthermia Challenges
- Management Strategies for Acute Post-op Pain
- Increased Risk for Compromised Airway
- Assessing for Cardiac Changes
- Regulatory Issues and SCIP Protocols
- Challenging Populations: Elderly, Pediatric, Pregnant
Changes in the post-surgical environment mean that patients have shorter post-operative hospital stays and spend more recovery time at home. Nurses providing care in the post-operative setting are left with the highest risk patients and tight schedules for getting them out the door. You are now challenged to ensure safety, minimize complications, and support an optimal recovery along the way. If you are providing care to patients recovering from a surgical intervention, you are guaranteed to sharpen your skills through updated knowledge gained by attending this critical one-day event!
Program Information
Outline
Types of Anesthesia and Sedation
- Minimal sedation, moderate sedation, and deep sedation
- General anesthesia
- Regional anesthesia
- Anesthesia risks and complications, airway management, and malignant hyperthermia
Post-Operative Pain Control
- Methods of analgesia
- Continuing airway management
- Tips for optimal recovery
Systems Assessment: The Effect of Surgical Intervention on Select Body Systems
- Circulatory system and blood loss
- Fluid shift and renal function
- Respiratory recovery
- GI / GU complications and surgeries
- Musculoskeletal rehabilitation
- Integumentary: Wound healing and complications
High-Risk Situations and Complications
- Emergency and trauma surgery
- Cardiac surgery
- Shock and sepsis
- Substance abuse and surgery
- Bloodless surgery
- Elderly and medically frail patients
- Surgery in the presence of CHF and CRF
- Recovery with dementia
Regulatory Issues
- SCIP protocols
- Staying on schedule with the shortening post-op stay
- Documentation strategies
Ethical Considerations in Surgery
- The decision to operate and medical futility
- Surgery on the DNR patient
- Consent issues
Patient Education
- Beginning post-op education in the preoperative setting
- The hospital stay as the first stage of recovery, preparing patients to rehab at home
- The patient's perspective: What I wish the nurse had told me…
Objectives
- Analyze the regulatory issues and standards driving changes in perianesthesia practice.
- Explain new protocols emerging as evidence-based practice.
- Differentiate the pharmacology and physiology of frequently-used induction, inhalation, neuromuscular blocking, and reversal agents used in the perianesthesia setting.
- Evaluate the key elements involved in medical malpractice.
- Analyze effective perianesthesia documentation.
- Demonstrate why certain populations pose challenges in the perianesthesia setting.
- Develop appropriate management strategies for acute pain in the postoperative setting.
- Determine interventions for postanesthesia complications.
Target Audience
Nurses and other Healthcare Professionals
Copyright :
05/18/2016
Preventing Post-Operative Complications: Module 2
- Implications of Pharmacological & Anesthetic Agents After Surgery
- Patient Education for Discharge Readiness
- New Evidence-Based Practice Standards
- Malignant Hyperthermia Challenges
- Management Strategies for Acute Post-op Pain
- Increased Risk for Compromised Airway
- Assessing for Cardiac Changes
- Regulatory Issues and SCIP Protocols
- Challenging Populations: Elderly, Pediatric, Pregnant
Changes in the post-surgical environment mean that patients have shorter post-operative hospital stays and spend more recovery time at home. Nurses providing care in the post-operative setting are left with the highest risk patients and tight schedules for getting them out the door. You are now challenged to ensure safety, minimize complications, and support an optimal recovery along the way. If you are providing care to patients recovering from a surgical intervention, you are guaranteed to sharpen your skills through updated knowledge gained by attending this critical one-day event!
OUTLINE
Types of Anesthesia and Sedation
- Minimal sedation, moderate sedation, and deep sedation
- General anesthesia
- Regional anesthesia
- Anesthesia risks and complications, airway management, and malignant hyperthermia
Post-Operative Pain Control
- Methods of analgesia
- Continuing airway management
- Tips for optimal recovery
Systems Assessment: The Effect of Surgical Intervention on Select Body Systems
- Circulatory system and blood loss
- Fluid shift and renal function
- Respiratory recovery
- GI / GU complications and surgeries
- Musculoskeletal rehabilitation
- Integumentary: Wound healing and complications
High-Risk Situations and Complications
- Emergency and trauma surgery
- Cardiac surgery
- Shock and sepsis
- Substance abuse and surgery
- Bloodless surgery
- Elderly and medically frail patients
- Surgery in the presence of CHF and CRF
- Recovery with dementia
Regulatory Issues
- SCIP protocols
- Staying on schedule with the shortening post-op stay
- Documentation strategies
Ethical Considerations in Surgery
- The decision to operate and medical futility
- Surgery on the DNR patient
- Consent issues
Patient Education
- Beginning post-op education in the preoperative setting
- The hospital stay as the first stage of recovery, preparing patients to rehab at home
- The patient's perspective: What I wish the nurse had told me…
OBJECTIVES
- Analyze the regulatory issues and standards driving changes in perianesthesia practice.
- Explain new protocols emerging as evidence-based practice.
- Differentiate the pharmacology and physiology of frequently-used induction, inhalation, neuromuscular blocking, and reversal agents used in the perianesthesia setting.
- Evaluate the key elements involved in medical malpractice.
- Analyze effective perianesthesia documentation.
- Demonstrate why certain populations pose challenges in the perianesthesia setting.
- Develop appropriate management strategies for acute pain in the postoperative setting.
- Determine interventions for postanesthesia complications.
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Copyright :
04/18/2016
Advancing Your Telemetry Skills for the Complex Patient: Module 1
- Many hands-on skill labs to test your knowledge
- Cardioversion, pacing, defibrillation
- Never miss the subtle changes that can signal trouble
- Latest trends in chest pain and heart failure management
- What you can expect from new medications in practice
- Best tips to monitor patient’s post-catheterization
Managing complex patients in the telemetry unit can be challenging for even experienced nurses in today’s outcome and technology-driven cardiology world. Are you familiar with the core measures frequently monitored on the telemetry unit? Are you confident in your ability to care for a patient who has a wearable defibrillator? Are you comfortable in your ability to titrate and wean oxygen? Do you hesitate on the steps necessary to cardiovert or defibrillate your unstable patient? Best practices are constantly evolving in response to the latest guidance coming from research. While it can be challenging to remain current with trends in telemetry nursing care, for your patients… it can be critical that you do so. Make time to attend this hands-on, engaging and highly informative event to advance your practice!
Program Information
Outline
Cardiac Rhythms Update
- Sinus
- Atrial
- Junctional
- Ventricular
- Blocks
- HANDS-ON LAB
- SKILLS: Video presentation
- Cardioversion
- Pacing
- Defibrillation
Commonly Prescribed Medications
- Vasodilators
- Antiarrythmics
- Vasopressors
- Inotropics
- Miscellaneous agents
Chest Pain – “Time is Muscle”
- Pathophysiology
- Cardiac enzymes & diagnostic testing
- Core measures
- Treatment/interventions
- HANDS-ON LAB
- SKILLS: Telemetry monitoring
- EKG lead placement
- Telemetry packs – 3, 5, and 6 leads
Heart Failure
- Pathophysiology
- Diagnostic testing
- Core measures
- Treatment/interventions
- HANDS-ON LAB
- SKILLS: Oxygen delivery systems
- Nasal cannula
- Simple face mask
- Partial rebreather
- Non-rebreather
- Venturi® mask
- HANDS-ON LAB
- SKILLS: Prevention of respiratory depression/failure
- Pulse oximetry – how effective is it?
- End-Tidal CO2 monitoring
Monitoring the Post-Cardiac Catheterization Patient
- Assessment of puncture site
- Monitoring for complications/Hematoma
- HANDS-ON LAB
- SKILLS: Hemostatic devices
- Radial access device
- Femoral access device
Trends in Patient Management
- Wear-able Defibrillator
- Left Ventricular Assist Device
- Chest tube management
- Left Atrial Appendage Closure Device
Objectives
- Compare and contrast sinus and atrial rhythms.
- Distinguish the differences between life-threatening arrhythmias.
- Discuss indications for medications commonly prescribed for telemetry patients.
- Analyze assessment of the post-cardiac catheterization patient for complications.
- Plan appropriate nursing care for the patient experiencing chest pain and/or heart failure.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of interventions to treat heart failure.
Target Audience
Nurses and other Healthcare Professionals
Copyright :
12/09/2016
Advancing Your Telemetry Skills for the Complex Patient: Module 2
Copyright :
12/09/2016