Cyndi Zarbano – 2-Day Critical Care Skills Boot Camp

These days, critically ill patients can be found all over the Med.-Surg floor in the ICU and PACU, the ED, or the OR.-term care! Good working knowledge of the concepts involved in managing high-risk situations.-It is essential to have acuity patients.

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 Cyndi Zarbano – 2-Day Critical Care Skills Boot Camp

Find the most recent clinical information on:

• Crisis Management
• ABG Analysis
• In 5 Easy Steps, Rhythm Interpretation
• Central Line Care
• Mechanical Ventilation
• Plus, Much More

DAY ONE: ESSENTIAL ASESSMENT, INTERPRETATION, AND INTERVENTION STRATEGIES

These days, critically ill patients can be found all over the Med.-Surg floor in the ICU and PACU, the ED and the OR.-term care! Good working knowledge of the concepts involved in managing high-risk situations.-It is essential to have acuity patients.

Join Cyndi Zarbano You can learn the most current in critical care skills to ensure your success, such as:

• Rapid Assessment
• ABG Analysis
• Central Line Care
• Easy Strip Interpretation

OUTLINE

Identification & Management of Crisis

• Master “down and dirty” Quick assessment skills
• Stop the “Red Flags”
• For unstable patients, rapid stabilizing interventions are necessary
• Take care of the patient who is decompensating
• Quick intervention can lead to better outcomes

Simple Steps to ABG Analysis

• Acid base imbalance
• 4 unusual findings in your lab results
• A simple tool to rapidly and efficiently interpret ABG’s!

The 5 Steps to Rhythm Strip Interpretation

• Reviewing the major components of a rhythm strip systematically
• Recognizing rhythm changes and managing them
• Atrial Fibrillation, Atrial Flutter
• Paroxysmal Supra-Ventricular Tachycardia or (PSVT).
• V-Tach and Vi-Fib

Management of chest drainage

• Chest tubes: Indications
• Reversing the cycle-Expansion of pulmonary edema
• Avoid common complications associated with chest drainage

Master Central Line Care

• Common problems experienced with central line
• What port is used for which purpose on a triple-lumen PICC?
• Use of a “cell-saver” Reduce hemoglobin loss during blood draws
• CVP monitoring: The challenge

Pacemakers & AICDs

• Signs that pacemakers are in action
• Meaning of the pacemaker codes
• Different types of pacemakers
• Device management
• Practical solutions for common pacemaker issues

End-Of-Life Care In the ICU

• The patient’s needs
• Practical tips to assist your patients and their families during the final stages of life-Of-life journey

OBJECTIVES

1. Identify 5 key components of an a “down and dirty” Assessment of your patient for sudden changes in health.
2. State three quick interventions that can stabilize a patient suffering from low blood pressure.
3. Recognize the most frequent causes of abnormal arterial blood gases.
4. Use rhythm strip interpretation to quickly identify the most common dysrhythmias.
5. Reduce the risk of reoccurrence-Expanding pulmonary edema in a patient who has pleural effusion.
6. Examine the right technique to open an occluded center line lumen.
7. Summarize the differences between failure to capture an pacemaker and failure to sense it and how they can be resolved.
8. Recognize the top three concerns that patients have at the end of their lives.

DAY TWO: ADVANCED CONTROL OF CRITICALLY ILL AND COMPLEX PATIENTS

The Advanced Management of Complex and Critically Ill Patients seminar will give you a strong foundation, while integrating tips, timesavers, and stories about real nurses who make a difference in their patient’s lives. This seminar will help you master critical care concepts and be an expert in your clinical practice. You will learn advanced concepts and procedures in critical care, such as:

• Advanced cardiac care/hemodynamics
• Advanced neurology care
• Mechanical ventilation management

OUTLINE

Learn Hemodynamics Today

• Cardiac output = Heart Rate x Stroke volume
  • You can learn the components by using a simple analogy.
• Preload, Afterload, and Contractility
• To stabilize the equation, manipulate the mathematical equation

Crisis for the ICU Trio

• IV Fluids: Which one is right for you?
• 5 Pressor agents: How they work and when to use them
  • Blood products FFP, Platelets, PRBC’s and Cryoprecipitate

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Demystify Hemodynamic Waveforms & Correctly Measure Each

• Evaluation clues for hemodynamic instability
• Central Venous Pressures
• Arterial Lines
• Swan Ganz Catheters

Nursing Personnel Can Use Mechanical Ventilation

• How to manage patients using ventilators
• Avoid Ventilator-Acquired Pneumonia
• CPAP/BiPAP

Avoid Shock

• Assessment and management
  • Cardiogenic shock
  • Septic Shock
  • Hypovolemic Shock

Take care of the neuropatient

• Use a “5-point Neuro Check” You can easily spot changes in conditions
• Stroke and Stabilization
  • Ischemic
  • Hemorrhagic
• Delirium
• How to assess & intervene

Life-EKG changes that are potentially dangerous: Clues starting at the 12-Lead

• The spectrum of coronary artery ischemia
• 5-Step method to find myocardial injury and/or myocardial ischemia
• STEMI and NSTEMI – What’s the difference?
• Location, location, location!

OBJECTIVES

1. Take the differences between preload, contractility, and afterload as factors that impact cardiac output.
2. Recognize the best locations to measure CVP, Arterial Line, and Wedge waveforms.
3. Determine the effectiveness of each type of IV fluid and distinguish them from one another.
4. Recognize the Blood Product of Choice for Disseminated Intravascular Cagulopathy.
5. In both treatment and assessment, it is important to distinguish between hypovolemic shock, severe shock, and cardiovascular shock.
6. Identify two ways to increase the ventilator patient’s oxygenation status.
7. Compare and contrast CPAP & BiPAP as well as their target population.
8. List 5 causes of delirium.
9. Identify the differences between a STEMI (or NSTEMI).

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