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Think Like an Emergency Nurse: Deliver Critical Care in Any Department


Speaker:
Sean G. Smith, MSc, FP-C, C-NPT, CEN, CFRN, CTRN, TCRN, CPEN, CCRN-CMC (Adult), CCRN-K (Neonatal), CCRN-K (Pediatric)
Duration:
6 Hours 14 Minutes
Copyright:
Oct 19, 2017
Publisher:
PESI Inc.
Product Code:
RNV077460
Media Type:
DVD - Also available: Digital Seminar


Description

  • Respond to a crashing patient – in any setting
  • Understand the “8-minute hour”
  • Mental strategies necessary for success in emergency situations
  • Increase your confidence when handling deteriorating patients

Your coworker calls for help – you go in to see her patient, sitting up and talking just a few minutes ago, now turning blue and gasping for air. You have a real chance to intervene and make a difference – that’s why you became a nurse! What will you do?

Imagine you are taking care of your patient – anywhere – the office, clinic, Nursing Home, OR, in the community and suddenly grasp that an emergency situation is unfolding. Do you know what to do? How to respond? Even if you call an ambulance or have a rapid response team coming, YOU may still be taking care of that patient for up to 8 minutes or more. What can YOU do in that time to improve the chances of a positive outcome?

How will you help save lives?

Your patient down the hall calls for help. As you enter the room, you see him begin to vomit blood. He becomes pale, and less responsive – but still awake. You call a Rapid Response, and stay with him until the team arrives. They assume care of the patient.

You’re left wishing you had done more – he was your patient, after all.

This intense course will provide you with the clinical insights and critical thinking skills that ED nurses excel at. You will no longer need to feel uncertain and scared.

The ability to assess, intervene and advocate will be reinforced through exciting clinical cases. You will experience the dramatic changes in your own practice when you work your next shift!

 

Credit


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


Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and Clinical Nurse Specialists

This self-study activity consists of 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from this self-study activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.


California Nurses

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

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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 6.3 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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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

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Outline

How will you improve patient outcomes?

  • Failure to rescue and how to avoid it
  • Increasing your confidence in emergent situations
  • Planning for the worst at every patient encounter
  • Advocating for your patient
  • Communicating high-risk information clearly
  • Mental strategies for success
  • Cognitive pre-planning
  • How the fire service relates to preparation for success

Risk Reduction

  • Recognizing risk for clinical decline
  • How to intervene before an event
  • Why respiratory rate matters
  • Know your strengths and have a plan to handle your weaknesses
  • Assemble your team

Common Emergency Conditions

  • The steps you can take to save lives
  • The 3 highest priority interventions for each
  • Common Emergency Conditions
    • Cardiac Arrest
    • Choking/Dislodged tracheostomy
    • Major Trauma
    • Control of hemorrhage
    • Sepsis
    • GI Bleed
    • Neurology
      • CVA/TIA: Acute Ischemic & Hemorrhagic
      • Seizure
      • Subarachnoid bleed
      • Intracranial hypertension
      • Is that blood pressure of 170/90 truly dangerous?
    • Cardiology
      • Dysrhythmias
      • Ventricular fibrillation
      • Ventricular tachycardia vs. Asystole
      • SVT
      • Rapid atrial fibrillation/flutter
      • Why is my patient tachycardic?

Prioritization & Practice

  • What matters most when the patient crashes
  • How to practice every day in 2 minutes or less
  • Why sick is sick until proven otherwise

Team Preparation

  • Who is coming to help you?
  • Team dynamics
  • What if you’re alone?

Cognitive Error

  • Which came first, the MI or the MVA?
  • Don’t put the cart before the horse

Putting it Together: Skills Lab & Clinical Scenarios

  • Group review of patient cases
  • Practice with instructor feedback
  • Use of “preparation sheet”

Objectives

  1. Develop a plan to respond to a crashing patient.
  2. Practice what is needed to respond quickly to help your sickest patients.
  3. Determine the immediate interventions necessary to save lives.
  4. Practice the mental strategies necessary for success.
  5. Distinguish between “sick” vs. “not sick”.
  6. Analyze clinical scenarios presented.
  7. Formulate a plan of action to deal with an emergency.

Target Audience

Nurses, and other Healthcare Professionals

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Comments

Deb H

"Sean is awesome!"

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