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Altered Mental Status: Connecting the Dots of Delirium, Dementia and Psychosis


Speaker:
Joyce Campbell, MSN, CCRN, SCRN, FNP-BC
Duration:
8 Hours
Format:
Audio and Video
Product Code:
LWC077450
Brochure Code:
PLW56853
Media Type:
Live Webcast - Also available: Digital Seminar | DVD

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Normal Price:      $249.99 - Now:  $49.99 - Exclusive offer when combined with this live training.

Description

  • Diagnostic challenges: Potential for involvement of one or more body systems
  • Take away life-saving interventions to prevent or treat delirium
  • Head to toe and diagnostic workup to identify cause
  • Find out the latest EBP for treating dementia
  • Be alert for common diseases and drugs causing AMS
  • What about the mentally ill patient with delirium?

Attention Health Care Professionals!! You play a vital role in identifying and assisting with resolution of problems affecting patients with altered mental status. The patient that you treat for altered mental status may be the life you save.

Delirium… Dementia… Psychosis

When facing a patient with altered mental status, no doubt you have caught yourself saying, “What is going on?” It is time to STOP, LISTEN, LOOK and ACT. This seminar dissects altered mental status (AMS), to identify the problem and lead the way to problem resolution. The study of AMS is like taking a combination med-surg and neuropsychiatric course, as one must look at all body systems when evaluating potential causes of AMS.

Every day, patients present with altered mental status in a variety of settings….ED, ICU, med/surg, geriatric, psych units, rehab, long-term care. The list goes on! Connecting the dots and identifying the problem may be life saving for the patient. You will leave with new assessment tools and strategies to alter the course for your patient experiencing an altered mental status condition.

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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.

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CE Information is based on 100% attendance.

 


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Social Workers - Canadian Social Workers

PESI, Inc., #1062, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the course. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2017 - January 27, 2020. Social Workers completing this course receive 6.25 (Clinical) continuing education credits for completing this intermediate level course. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to social workers who complete the program evaluation. Full attendance is required. No partial credit will be offered for partial attendance. Canadian provinces may accept activities approved by the ASWB for ongoing professional development.


Social Workers - Florida Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Mental Health Counselors

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. Provider Number #50-399. This course qualifies for 6.25 continuing education credits.


Social Workers - Illinois Social Workers

PESI, Inc is an approved provider with the State of Illinois, Department of Professional Regulation. License #: 159-000154. Full attendance at this course qualifies for 6.0 contact hours.


Social Workers - Kansas Social Workers

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board. Provider #14-006. This course has been approved for 6.0 continuing education hours.


Social Workers - Minnesota Social Workers

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the State of Minnesota, Board of Social Work. Provider #: CEP-140. This course has been approved for 6.0 continuing education hours. This certificate has been issued upon successful completion of a post-test.


Social Workers - New York Social Workers

PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0008. This activity will qualify for 7.5 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance. 


Case Managers

This program has been pre-approved by The Commission for Case Manager Certification to provide continuing education credit to CCM® board certified case managers. The course is approved for 6.25 CE contact hour(s).


Pharmacology Nurse Practitioners

This program offers instructional minutes of pharmacology content which is designed to qualify for 3.0 contact hours toward your pharmacology requirement. 


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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 6.3 contact hours.


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PESI, Inc. is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 17118 for 6.0 contact hours. Full attendance is required. No partial contact hours will be issued for partial attendance. 


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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 7.6 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.


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Ohio Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage & Family Therapists

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Pennsylvania Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage & Family Therapists

This intermediate activity is approved for 6.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please contact your licensing board to determine if they accept programs or providers approved by other national or state licensing boards. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who are in full attendance and who complete the program evaluation.


California Social Workers, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Licensed Educational Psychologists

This intermediate activity consists of 6.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please contact your licensing board to determine if they accept programs or providers approved by other national or state licensing boards. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who are in full attendance and who complete the program evaluation.


Other Professions

This activity qualifies for 6.25 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

Joyce Campbell, MSN, CCRN, SCRN, FNP-BC Related seminars and products


Joyce Campbell, MSN, CCRN, SCRN, FNP-BC, has been involved in the nursing field for 35 years. For over 25 years, she taught in an associate degree nursing program where her primary focus was the theory and clinical instruction of neuroscience nursing. In addition to teaching, she has been employed by Comprehensive Health System in Chattanooga, Tennessee for the past 30 years. At Erlanger, she has adopted many roles, including neurosurgical and trauma critical care staff nurse, educator and nurse practitioner. Currently, she serves on the neuroservice line committee and provides stroke education to staff and patients. Erlanger Southeast Regional Stroke Center, an accredited Primary Stroke Center, houses a leading-edge stroke care facility serving over 2000 stroke patients annually.

Through her work at Erlanger, Joyce is able to experience, first hand, the latest innovative strategies for extending the window of treatment for stroke patients. She holds a BSN from East Tennessee State University, an MSN from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and completed post-graduate studies at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Joyce is an active member of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses, American Association of Nurse Practitioners, and the Chattanooga Association of Nurses in Advanced Practice, where she has served as president and is a member of the educational committee.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Joyce Campbell has an employment relationship with Erlanger Southeast Regional Stroke Center. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Joyce Campbell is a member of the educational committee for the Chattanooga Association of Nurses in Advanced Practice.

 


Additional Info

Access Period for Live Webcast

For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review. 


Webcast Schedule

Please note: There will be a 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.


Outline

Life-Threatening Causes of AMS: Prepare to Intervene

  • Airway problems leading to hypoxia and CNS symptoms
  • Gross assessment of disability: GCS or AVPU
  • Rapid head to toe assessment
  • Look for rapidly fixable causes
  • History and physical… Asking the right questions
  • Diagnostic work-up
  • Coma and altered level of consciousness: Brain stem and cerebral hemispheres
  • Predictive model for the risk of delirium in hospitalized older patients
  • Intensive care delirium scanning checklist
  • Confusion Assessment Method
  • AACN Practice Alert
  • Break down: Delirium, dementia and psychosis

Common Conditions Causing Delirium

  • Medications – Adverse effects and interactions
    • Central acting agents
    • Sedative hypnotics
    • Anticonvulsants
    • Analgesics
    • GI agents
    • Antinauseants
    • Antibiotics
    • Psychotropic meds
    • Cardiac meds
    • OTC meds
    • Steroids
  • Medications – withdrawal syndromes
  • UTI
  • Pneumonia
  • Electrolyte disorders
  • Endocrine crisis: Hyper/hypothyroid, adrenal, diabetic, Wilson’s disease
  • Korsakoff syndrome
  • Transient global amnesia
  • Pain agitation

10 Life-Threatening Conditions Causing Delirium

  • Hypoxia
  • Hypoglycemia
  • Encephalopathy: Hypertensive and Werniche’s
  • Drug overdose
  • Acute neuro: Meningitis, SAH and seizures
  • CNS trauma
  • Sepsis

Delirium: Don’t Forget These Possibilities:

  • The patient with delirium related to structural changes
  • Subdural hematoma
  • Brain tumor
  • Normal pressure hydrocephalus
  • Stroke
  • Infectious disease and SEPSIS: The ticking time bomb
  • Not to be missed: Meningitis, encephalitis

Psychosis: Into Madness

  • Major depressive disorder
  • PHQ-9 screening instrument
  • Post-partum depression
  • Bipolar
  • Schizophrenia
  • Schizoaffective
  • Delusions, illusions, hallucinations
  • Positive and negative clinical manifestations
  • Pharmacology and other treatments
  • Personality Disorders
  • Schizotypal Disorder
  • A case of global amnesia

Dementia: The Work-Up

  • History
  • Mini mental
  • Sweet 16 Cognitive assessment tool
  • Radiological diagnostic work-up
  • Delirium plus dementia
  • Alzheimer work-up
  • Lewy body
  • Chronic traumatic encephalopathy

Interventions for the Common Problems

  • Memory loss and confusion
  • Reduced concentration
  • Hallucinations
  • Agitation
  • Sleep disturbance
  • Inability to carry out ADLs

Expanding the Window of Care: Current Research

Objectives

  1. Recognize the “red flags” indicating potentially fatal outcomes.
  2. Explain interventions to rapidly reverse the causes of AMS.
  3. Differentiate between delirium, dementia and psychosis.
  4. Identify the underlying causes of AMS.
  5. Select between new tools for assessment and evaluation.
  6. List the best diagnostic options to differentiate among possible causes.
  7. Develop a treatment plan for the most common causes of AMS.
  8. Analyze practice guidelines for prevention and management of pain, agitation and delirium.

Target Audience

Case Managers, Nurses, Physician Assistants, Social Workers

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