Nurse practitioners, nurses, clinical nurse specialists, physician assistants, physicians, and other healthcare professionals will benefit from this training.
Discover essential new strategies to care for high-acuity patients.
As a critical care professional, you never know what is coming next. Your work is intense, exhausting, and stressful.
Your days are non-stop and it's tough to stay up to date on the newest evidence to find practical solutions during extreme patient situations.
But you love to make a difference. When you participate in the Critical Care Certificate Course, you'll train with 17 of the country's leading experts in critical care. You'll walk away with the confidence to manage any crisis... from hemodynamic emergencies... to increased intracranial pressure... to life-threatening infectious diseases and more!
This comprehensive training includes everything you need to stay up to date on the most current and effective interventions and give your patients the best possible care... and earn you certificate in critical care. Your certificate will set you apart as a skilled critical care professional with specialized knowledge and skills.
Gain confidence as you explore practice-changing treatment for...- Atrial Fibrillation
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Increased Intracranial Pressure
- Sepsis and Septic Shock
- Hemodynamic Monitoring
- Legal Risks for Critical Care Professionals
- Up-to-Date Stroke Care
- Cardiac Output
- Managing the Emergency and Trauma Patient
- Neuro Medications
- And much, much more!
It’s all yours with unlimited access to all the course materials — completely risk-free with PESI’s 100% satisfaction guarantee.
Critical Care Certificate Course
- SARS-CoV2/COVID-19 — what is new… A LOT!!!
- Monkeypox — very closely related to smallpox
- Hepatitis A, B, and C
- Tuberculosis (TB): Still prevalent and highly contagious
- Influenza season
- IV Fluids - The Right One for the Situation
- 5 Pressor Agents - Their Action & Use
- Blood Products! FFP, Platelets, PRBCs & Cryoprecipitate
- Management of atrial fibrillation
- Convergent procedure overview
- Cardiovascular implantable electronic devices
- Types of strokes: Ischemic, Hemorrhagic
- Saving the penumbra: Reversible ischemia
- Neurologic Assessment Tools: Overview of tools, NIHSS for the Intubated patient, Application of stroke screening tools, Dysarthria vs. Aphasia
- Stroke Syndromes & Stroke Mimics
- Stroke Management: Protocols, Medications, Endovascular therapy
- Case presentations: Is it a stroke syndrome or a mimic? Should you activate RRT-Stroke?
- Monro-Kellie hypothesis, compliance, and compensation
- Early vs. late physiologic signs of increased ICP
- Current management strategies for ICP
- Analyze the three components of stroke volume
- Choose the best vasopressor for unstable patient scenarios
- Advance cardiac output understanding to improve your critical thinking
- Current lawsuit trends
- Common documentation pitfalls
- Documentation tips for high-risk situations and conversations
- Electronic documentation — the do's and don'ts
- What to expect in this crucial care course
- Current State of Critical Care: Current Challenges
- Future of our Specialty: What's upcoming in our field
- Components of the ABCDE Bundle
- Where do we start? GAP analysis process
- Strategies for Implementation in the ICU
- How to develop a Multidisciplinary Rounding Process
- Metrics used in evaluation of the ABCDE Process
Includes up to 1 pharmacology hour
- Pain Overview and the Pain Experience
- Acute vs. Chronic Pain
- Pain Management
- How Pain and Sedation Translate to Practice
- Sedation Scales
- Nurses Role
- Sepsis Background Physiology
- Assessment Criteria
- Most recent SSC guidelines
- Implications for nursing practice
- Long-term outcomes for survivors of sepsis
- Head-to-Toe Approach
- Neurological Exam
- Cardiac Exam
- Respiratory Exam
- Trends in Emergency and Trauma Nursing
- Head and Neck Trauma
- Thoracic/Abdominal/Genitourinary Trauma
- Extremity Trauma
- Waveform analysis
- Transducer leveling and zeroing
- Central venous pressure
- Direct arterial monitoring
- Swan Ganz numbers
- PAP documentation
Includes up to 2 pharmacology hours
- Hyperosmolar therapy
- Antiseizure medications
- Antithrombotic agents
- Anticoagulant reversal and hemostatic agents
- Antishivering agents
- Neuromuscular blocking agents
- Antihypertensive agents
- Sedation and analgesia
- Vasopressors and inotropes
- Antimicrobials
- Learn how to recognize behaviors of healthcare serial killers
- Dissect case studies of actual healthcare serial killers
- Methods utilized by healthcare serial killers — and their motivations
- Victimology commonalities
- Educational and interventional strategies
- Straight talk on medical malpractice
- Actions and inactions
- Communication problems
- Shortcuts and time management
- Personal injury and equipment failures
- The critical dissection of a story
- License defense tactics
- Pharmacokinetics to Guide Medication Decisions
- Principles of Analgesia
- Medications for Pain Management
- Substance Use Disorder
- Standard of Care for Scheduled Pain Medications
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We’re that confident you'll find this learning experience to be all that's promised and more than you expected.
Nurse practitioners, nurses, clinical nurse specialists, physician assistants, physicians, and other healthcare professionals will benefit from this training.
This training will give you the tools to clearly distinguish yourself as a leader in critical care, and a displayable certificate is a small way to recognize the time and effort you committed to improving your critical care.
Your patients deserve someone who has put in more than the minimum. Leave no doubt that you are an expert your Critical Care Certificate.