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Only $19 for the short course (1.5 CEs)

Presedation Assessment and Monitoring

From the "Moderate Sedation: Current Issues and Future Possibilities" webinar

Register Now 1.5 Content Hours $19

Who Should Be Interested:
RNs working in OR, Ambulatory Surgery, ICU, CCU, Emergency Room, Gasteroenterology, Radiology, Pediatrics, Cardiac Labs, Acute Care Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Acute Care Physician’s Assistants.
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Presenters:
Linda Callahan, CRNA, PhD
 

Topics:

I. Patient counseling and Informed consent

II. Physical Assessment

A. Health status evaluation
B. Indications for specific lab and diagnostic studies
C. Specific disease and medication concerns-Sleep apnea, pacemakers, asthma, drug abuse, herbal medications, etc
D. Fasting Status Criteria
E. ASA (PS) Classification

III. Essential Monitors

A. ECG, Blood Pressure, Level of Consciousness, End-tidal CO2 ,Pulse oximetry, Bispectral index analysis

IV. Prevention and Treatment of alterations in cardiac dynamics

A. Hypotension, hypertension, dysrhythmias

Behavioral/Learning Objectives:

  1. Identify the required components of Informed Consent for Sedation.
  2. List the components of appropriate health status assessment of adult patients prior to sedation.
  3. Define specific types of patients in whom presedation laboratory and x-ray tests may be necessary
  4. Outline advantages and disadvantages of monitors that are essential for use during procedural sedation.
  5. Outline the basic concepts of consciouness assessment during sedation utilizing scales or monitors.
  6. Describe common factors that produce hypotension or hypertension in patients during moderate sedation.
  7. Describe decision-making rationales for treatment of intra-procedural hypo- or hypertension.
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Nurses – Academy Medical Systems is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s COA.

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AMS is also a provider approved by the Florida Board of Nursing, provider #50-19.

Iowa Nurses – The Iowa Board of Nurses will recognize the recorded webinars as a home study program. They recognize our ANCC approved provider status as well as our CA and Fl Board of Nursing provider approval for home study products for nurses in Iowa.

All other states recognize our approved provider status listed in the above text for continuing education credit for nurses.

1.5 contact hours will be rewarded to nursing professionals at the completion of this workshop.

Certified Nurses - Most certifying organizations recognize AMS’s approved provider status with the ANCC and will honor our continuing education courses for nurses recertification requirements (with the exception of ACLS and PALS certification).


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