Full Course Description
Module One: Certified Emergency Nurse CEN®
Program Information
Target Audience
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
- Clinical Nurse Specialists
Outline
Day One
- Physical preparation
- Application process
- Question interpretation
- Practice questions
- Study preparations
- Successful test-taking strategies
- Cardiovascular and Shock Emergencies
- 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
- Communicable Diseases
- Professional Issues
Please feel free to review the BCEN® website for specifics on the recommended requirements to sit for the exam.
http://www.bcencertifications.org/Get-Certified/CEN.aspx
Objectives
- Consider pearls and pitfalls in both preparing for and taking Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN®) exam.
- Organize 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.
- Prioritize the core curriculum components of emergency nursing professional issues are covered in the exam through didactic supplementation and test questions.
- Support the knowledge gained throughout the day in a comprehensive mini-exam, using realistic questions that simulate typical exam items.
- Determine three rapid interventions that can stabilize a patient who is symptomatic with a low blood pressure.
- Categorize the most common causes of arterial blood gas abnormalities.
- Evaluate the three most common dysrhythmias using rhythm strip interpretation.
- Specify the three biggest concerns patients recognize at the end of life.
- Investigate the differences between hypovolemic shock, septic shock and cardiovascular shock in both assessment and treatment priorities.
Copyright :
10/02/2018