Tracy Shaw – Managing Nursing Emergencies

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 Tracy Shaw – Managing Nursing Emergencies

Description:

• Rapid Assessment Techniques
• Strategies for the Compromised Patient: History-Taking Strategies
• Interventions for Cardiac and Neurological Problems. Emergencies
• Crisis Management to Improve Patient Outcomes

Managing Nursing Emergencies It teaches you skills that will increase your confidence in dealing with emergency situations. Subtle signs and changes in a patient’s condition can mean the difference between a crashing patient and a stable patient.

Join expert, Tracy Shaw, and learn the essential skills to identify these subtle changes in a patient’s condition in order to intervene in an emergency in any healthcare setting.

This seminar will equip you with the knowledge and skills to handle any nursing emergency that may arise.

OUTLINE

Identify the Red Flags

• Triage: Every nurse needs it
  • Recognize red flags in patient presentations
    • Critical thinking
    • Advanced identification skills
    • Prioritizing patient acuity
• Rapid Assessment and Medical history Techniques
  • Triangle Triage
  • ABCD Assessment in less than 10 seconds
  • It is important to ask the right questions in order to obtain the most relevant information
  • Rapid, thorough and quick assessments
    • General
    • Neurological
    • Cardiovascular
    • Pulmonary
    • Psychosocial

Neurological Emergencies

• Prevention, presentation, and action for:
• Intracranial pressure: Concepts and volume
• Malignant headache
• Cerebrovascular accident (CVA)
• Delirium
• Autonomic dysreflexia

Cardiac Emergencies

• Prevention, presentation, and action for:
• “I’m having chest pain…”
• Acute coronary Syndromes
  • Ischemia: Stable vs. unstable
  • Non-STEMI
  • STEMI
• Heart failure
• Pulmonary embolism

Pulmonary Emergencies

• Prevention, Presentation, Action
• Respiratory failure
• COPD: Chronic bronchitis and emphysema
• Acute Respiratory Stress Syndrome (ARDS).

Endocrine Emergencies

• Prevention, presentation, and action for:
  • Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA)
  • Hypoglycemia

Fluid Imbalance/Circulatory Emergencies

• Prevention, Presentation, Action
• Sepsis
  • Septic Shock: SIRS
• Hemorrhage and Delayed hemorhage
  • Shock
  • Delayed Hemorrhage in Trauma
  • GI Bleeds
  • Aneurysm of the Abdominal Aortic
• Compartment Syndromes
  • Extremity
  • Abdominal

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OBJECTIVES

• Two types of rapid assessment methods are described and shown how to use them in an emergency situation.
• Discuss methods for obtaining critical information during a quick patient assessment.
• This article will review the components of a quick and thorough patient assessment. The emphasis is on evaluations of the neurologic, cardiac, pulmonary, and psychosocial systems.
• Recognize the EARLY assessment results in clinical syndromes that can progress quickly and cause death-Conditions that could be dangerous
• Examine volume and pressure concepts in relation intracranial pressure. This will allow you to link these concepts with clinical correlates in patients suffering from neurological emergencies.
• Discuss hemodynamic concepts relating to shock states.
• Discuss specific fluid imbalance, neurological, cardiac, respiratory and endocrine emergencies.
• Explore the philosophy behind patient-family relationships-How to incorporate this philosophy into the care of critically ill patients.