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1. Explain the essential measures to prevent complications of anesthesia.
2. Understand various pain management strategies in the perioperative and postoperative period.
3. Evaluate how the human body responds to stress and injury, particularly following a surgical procedure.
4. Apply the “ebb” and “flow” theories surrounding responses to trauma.
5. Incorporate new skills to prevent complications of surgical intervention.
6. Learn how to contribute to an early identification of SIRS, sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock.
7. Propose the immediate interventions that must be taken with sepsis.
8. Choose strategies to optimally prepare the patient for recovery at home.
9. Incorporate the newest patient education theories in to everyday interactions with patients.

Types of Anesthesia and Sedation

• General and regional anesthesia
• Common complications
• Newest research in symptom management

Post Operative Pain Control

• Complex pain management issues
• Evidence-based pain management
• Ideal vs. real world issues
• Managing effects and side effects
• Over-medication & accommodation

Physiologic Response to Surgical Stress

• Cellular level response
• Stress, inflammatory, and metabolic response
• Understanding the “ebb” and “flow” theory
• Newest research to reduce complications from surgical stress

Sepsis

• Identification and first response
• Real world scenarios and presentations
• The most up-to-date evidence to reduce infection rates

Special Situations & Ethical Issues

• Bloodless surgery
• Special considerations in GI surgery
• Consent issues
• Surgery on the DNR patient
• The ethics of evidence based surgical options

Recovery at Home

• The hospital stay as the first stage of recovery
• Newest patient education theories
• “What I wish someone had told me…”

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.

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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.

Certificates of Successful Completion are available for email, download and/or printing from your online account immediately following the successful completion of the post-test/evaluation.

**Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of mental health professionals. 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 professions standards.

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners. For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

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Nurses/Nurse Practitioners/Clinical Nurse Specialists - Credit Expired: 4/12/2022
No CE available for this board.

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.

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.

Copies of the evaluation may be sent to the IBON. 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.

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Pharmacology Nurse Practitioners
This self-study program offers 120 instructional minutes of pharmacology content which is designed to qualify for 2.0 contact hours toward your pharmacology requirement.

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Other Professions
This self-study activity qualifies for 6.25 clock hours of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Retain your certificate of completion and contact your board or organization for specific filing requirements.

Disclaimer: **Information obtained in this course should be used within your scope of practice.
**It is your ethical responsibility to report accurate hours to your licensing board.
**All self-study participants must complete and pass (80% or better) a post-test and evaluation prior to receiving a certificate of completion. If you require a copy of the test/evaluation for CE purposes, please print at the time you take the test. Or you may call our customer service department and a copy of your test/evaluation will be emailed to you. Please allow 30-45 days.

Nurses and other Healthcare Professionals