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2-Day Advanced MegaCode Certificate Course


Speaker:
Sean G. Smith, MSc, FP-C, C-NPT, CEN, CFRN, CTRN, TCRN, CPEN, CCRN-CMC (Adult), CCRN-K (Neonatal), CCRN-K (Pediatric)
Duration:
2 Full Days
Format:
Audio and Video
Product Code:
LWC078260
Brochure Code:
PWZ85698
Media Type:
Live Webinar - Also available: Digital Seminar | DVD

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Normal Price:      $459.99 - Now:  $79.99 - Exclusive offer when combined with this live training.

Description

Patient codes can strike fear in the best of clinicians.

How confident are YOU in your own role during patient codes? And not just the straightforward patient codes. The codes that depend on the entire team to offer expertise and seamless skill. The MegaCodes. Critical thinking must be spot on. And there sure cannot be any delays or second guessing.

Did you know that the AHA guidelines have just been updated? There are changes to adult basic life support, enhanced algorithms for BLS and ACLS resuscitation and more! We all know what that means … get a jump on the new standards coming!

The clinical expert selected for this intense training opportunity will share countless tips from his many years working as an emergency, critical care, flight and trauma nurse, to lead the way to new best practice guidelines, new strategies and new thinking. You’ll immediately elevate your knowledge, breeze through your mandatory certification exams and earn up to 14.5 CE credits, including 4 ANCC Approved Pharmacology CE credits.

Don’t wait another minute … to Master the Patient MegaCode! Register today!

Credit


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NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the on-line post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). 

Continuing Education Information: Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this live interactive webcast. This webcast is a broadcast of a live event. You will be able to type questions to the speaker. The speaker will see the questions and address them during the presentation as time allows. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether web based activities are an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.

Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.

For Planning Committee disclosures, please see the statement above.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

CE Information is based on 100% attendance.

 


Pharmacology Nurse Practitioners

This program offers 240 instructional minutes of pharmacology content which is designed to qualify for 4.0 contact hours toward your pharmacology requirement. 


Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and Clinical Nurse Specialists - ANCC

PESI, Inc. is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Nurses in full attendance will earn 12.5 contact hours. Partial contact hours will be awarded for partial attendance.


California Nurses

PESI, Inc. is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 17118 for 12.5 contact hours. Full attendance is required. No partial contact hours will be issued for partial attendance. 


Florida Nurses

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Nursing, Provider # FBN2858. This course qualifies for 12.5 contact hours. 

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Iowa Nurses

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Iowa Board of Nursing. Provider #: 346. Full attendance at this activity qualifies for 12.5 contact hours. Full attendance in the activity is required; no partial contact hours will be issued for partial attendance. These contact hours are used for your license renewal. Please email cepesi@pesi.com with your license number, include the webcast title, speaker name and date. PESI must have this number on file in order for your hours to be valid for the webcast.


Physician Assistants

AAPA accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by ACCME such as PESI. Physician assistants may receive a maximum of 12.5 hours for completing this program.


PESI, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. PESI, Inc. designates this live activity for a maximum of 12.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.


Physicians

PESI, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

PESI, Inc. designates this live activity for a maximum of 12.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.


Other Professions

This activity qualifies for 760 continuing education minutes as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your activity advertisement and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements. 



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Speaker

Sean G. Smith, MSc, FP-C, C-NPT, CEN, CFRN, CTRN, TCRN, CPEN, CCRN-CMC (Adult), CCRN-K (Neonatal), CCRN-K (Pediatric)'s Profile

Sean G. Smith, MSc, FP-C, C-NPT, CEN, CFRN, CTRN, TCRN, CPEN, CCRN-CMC (Adult), CCRN-K (Neonatal), CCRN-K (Pediatric) Related seminars and products


Sean G. Smith, MSc, FP-C, C-NPT, CEN, CFRN, CTRN, TCRN, CPEN, CCRN-CMC (Adult), CCRN-K (Neonatal), CCRN-K (Pediatric), is a humanitarian/flight nurse-paramedic who is triple board-certified in neonatal, pediatric, and adult critical care and emergency medicine. He brings 30+ years of education and team/leadership experience to his presentations from a career that includes global health, tropical medicine, research molecular neuroendocrinology, nuclear engineering technology, US Navy aviation/NASA manned space flight support, and high-performance teams/high-yield pedagogy, dozens of national/international conference presentations and various awards and honors. Author/co-author/review credits include a best-selling laboratory medicine textbook, a chapter on shock in Nursing Core Curriculum a section in the newly released Resuscitation Crisis Manual, numerous other industry-standard textbooks, and several professional association critical care/emergency medicine curriculums and board certification review courses (AACN, ANN, ENA, SCCM, etc.). Additionally, Sean routinely consults on clinical, legal, and certification matters for numerous high-profile hospital systems (Yale, Mayo, etc.). He holds an MSc in Pharmacy/Forensic Science, bachelor’s degrees in business administration, nursing, and molecular biology, and post graduate certificates in Forensic Death Investigation, Legal Consulting, and Tropical Medicine. In addition to being active in a number of professional associations (SCCM, AACN, WADEM, etc.), Sean is a life member of Mensa, The Emergency Nurses Association, and the Air Surface Transport Nurses Association. He has served on the executive committees and in various leadership roles of numerous charities and professional associations and has led/participated in 50+ medical missions (Dominican Republic, Honduras, Morocco, Liberia, Nepal, Iraq, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Haiti). Sean served as a clinician and educator during the largest Ebola and Cholera outbreaks in recent history and is currently active in building sustainable neonatal-pediatric cardiac critical care capacity in Iraq, as well as serving as part of a national-level multidisciplinary child sexual assault forensics team in Guyana, South America. Hobbies include Scuba diving and vintage science kits, tube amplifiers, and motorcycles.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Sean Smith is an independent contractor. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Sean Smith is a member of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, the Emergency Nurses Association, and the Society for Critical Care Medicine.


Additional Info

Access Period for Live Webcast

For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review.


Webcast Schedule

Please note: Each day there will be a 70-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.


Questions?

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Objectives

  1. Practice with Psychological Safety and Just Culture for dynamic improvement in high performance resuscitation.
  2. Apply clinical strategies and evidence-based assessments to identify patients at risk for cardiopulmonary arrest.
  3. Evaluate early recognition and management strategies for acute coronary syndrome, including appropriate disposition.
  4. Determine bradycardias and tachycardias that may result in cardiac arrest or a complicate resuscitation outcome.
  5. Perform early management of bradycardias and tachycardias that may result in cardiac arrest or complicate resuscitation outcome.
  6. Choose effective communication as a member or leader of a high-performance team.
  7. Analyze the impact of team dynamics on overall team performance.
  8. Manage reversible causes of cardiac or respiratory arrest.
  9. Perform a targeted temperature management.
  10. Demonstrate best practice management of opioid overdose.
  11. Assess the impact of prompt, high-quality BLS on hemodynamics and cerebrovascular perfusion.
  12. Perform early management of cardiac arrest until termination of resuscitation or transfer of care.
  13. Evaluate resuscitative efforts during a cardiac arrest through continuous assessment of CPR quality, monitoring the patient’s physiologic response, and delivering real-time feedback to the team.

Outline

The Patient is Trying to Die
  • Cardiac output
  • Cerebral perfusion pressure
  • Presentation/pathophysiology/palliation
  • Rule out reversible causes
  • Sepsis pathways
  • Pressure and volume explained
  • 21 ways a patient could code
Major NEW 2020 AHA Guideline Changes
  • Opioid associated emergency algorithms
  • Post-cardiac arrest care algorithm
  • Neuro prognostication diagramming
  • Cardiac arrest in pregnancy algorithm
  • CPR best practices
  • Stable vs. unstable threats to life
Post-Resuscitation Care Guidelines
  • Targeted temperature management
  • Stroke volume – optimizing afterload, cardiogenic shock, distributive shocks
  • Optimize volume status
  • End goal of the code
  • Trauma triad of death
  • 4 key pain pathway considerations
Pre and Post-Arrest Pearls
  • Pro-actively anticipate lab changes
  • What is the EKG telling you
  • Imagery needed ASAP
  • Oxygenation and ventilation -> homeostasis
  • Case studies to test your knowledge
  • Additional resources to keep learning

Target Audience

  • Nurses
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Clinical Nurse Specialists
  • Physician Assistants
  • Physicians

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