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Digital Seminar

Preventing Post-Operative Complications


Speaker:
Casseopia Fisher, MSN, RN, CMSRN
Duration:
Full Day
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
May 18, 2016
Product Code:
POS076785_M1
Media Type:
Digital Seminar - Also available: Digital Seminar | DVD


Description

  • 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!

 

Credit


* Credit Note - **

NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after completing 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 non-interactive self-study package. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether self-study is 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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California Nurses

PESI, Inc. is a provider approved by the California Board of  Registered Nursing, Provider #: 17118 for 6.0 self-study contact hours. 

** You will need to provide your license number to PESI. PESI must have this number on file in order for your hours to be valid.


Florida Nurses

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Florida Board of  Nursing. Provider #: FBN2858. These materials qualify for 6.0 self-study contact hours.

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Iowa Nurses

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Iowa Board of Nursing. Provider #: 346. Nurses successfully completing these self-study materials will earn 7.6 self-study contact hours. Please email cepesi@pesi.com with your license number, include the title, speaker name and date. PESI must have this number on file in order for your hours to be valid.


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This self-study activity qualifies for 6.25 continuing education clock hours 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

Casseopia Fisher, MSN, RN, CMSRN Related seminars and products


Casseopia Fisher, MSN, RN, CMSRN, has practiced nursing in multiple hospital post-surgical environments, including Trauma, Orthopedics, and Surgical Specialties. She is currently Nurse Manager of a Med-Surg unit and ICU, and a graduate of Oregon Health and Science University and Western Governors University.

Casseopia has a passion to share her expertise with healthcare audiences through a variety of presentations that draw from her background. As such, she is a sought-after national presenter on topics that draw from her areas of expertise. She holds her certification in Medical-Surgical Nursing and has a special interest in the management of alcohol withdrawal/drug abuse in the inpatient population.

 

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Casseopia Fisher has employment relationships with Providence Seaside Hospital and Columbia Memorial Hospital. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Non-financial: Casseopia Fisher is a member of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses and the Medical Surgical Nursing Certification Board.


Alternate Options

Preventing Post-Operative Complications
Copyright: 04/12/2019 - Product Code POS076785

Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.


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

  1. Analyze the regulatory issues and standards driving changes in perianesthesia practice.
  2. Explain new protocols emerging as evidence-based practice.
  3. Differentiate the pharmacology and physiology of frequently-used induction, inhalation, neuromuscular blocking, and reversal agents used in the perianesthesia setting.
  4. Evaluate the key elements involved in medical malpractice.
  5. Analyze effective perianesthesia documentation.
  6. Demonstrate why certain populations pose challenges in the perianesthesia setting.
  7. Develop appropriate management strategies for acute pain in the postoperative setting.
  8. Determine interventions for postanesthesia complications.

Target Audience

Nurses and other Healthcare Professionals

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Comments

Christy S

"This was such a great course!"

patricia b

"the course was very pertinent to my area of practice."

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