Cyndi Zarbano – Essential Assessment, Interpretation and Intervention Strategies

She also speaks at other events. Cyndi The Journal of Radiology published a 2013 article about the care of ICU patients during radiographic testing.

Cyndi Zarbano – Essential Assessment, Interpretation and Intervention Strategies

Description:

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

Join Cyndi Zarbano and You will learn the most current critical care skills to ensure your success, including:

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

OUTLINE

Identification & Management of Crisis

• • Master “down and dirty” Rapid assessment skills
• Stop the “Red Flags”
  • Stabilizing rapid interventions for unstable patients
• The decompensating patient can be managed
  • Fast intervention leads to better outcomes

Simple Steps to ABG Analysis

• Acid base imbalance
• 4 unexpected results when you read your lab test result
• This simple tool can be used to quickly and easily and efficiently interpret ABG’s!

The 5 Steps to Rhythm Strip Interpretation

• Analyzing the main components of rhythm strips systematically
• Recognizing rhythm changes and Management of:
• Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter
• Paroxysmal Supra-Ventricular Tachycardia, (PSVT).
• V-Tach and V-Fib

How to manage chest drainage

• The indications for chest tubes
• Reversing the cycle-Expansion of pulmonary edema
• Avoiding the common complications of chest drainage

Master Central Line Care

• • Common issues with central line services
  • What port is used for which purpose on a triple-lumen PICC?
  • Use of a “cell-saver” To reduce hemoglobin lost during blood draws
• Monitoring CVP is a difficult task

Pacemakers & AICDs

• Pacemaker indications
• Meaning of the pacemaker codes
• Types of Pacemakers
• Device management
• Practical solutions for common pacemaker issues

OBJECTIVES

• Identify five essential components of a “down and dirty” Assessment of your patient for sudden changes in their health.
• Three quick interventions can be made to stabilize patients suffering from low blood pressure symptoms.
• Recognize the most common causes for abnormalities in arterial blood gas.
• Using rhythm strip interpretation, quickly identify the three most common dysrhythmias.
• Take control of the risk to avoid reoccurrence-Expanding pulmonary edema in a patient who has pleural effusion.
• Learn how to open an occluded central lumen.
• Summarize what the difference is between capture and failure and Inability to sense in a pacemaker and How each one is solved.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Cyndi ZarbanoRN, BSN. CCRN. CMSRN. CLNC. NLCP.She is an intensive care nurse who has twenty-years of experience and currently works at two facilities in the Twin Cities, Minnesota. She is a national recognized expert in the field of nursing.-A well-respected speaker for seminars, who has opened numerous national symposiums and PESI HealthCare speaks on a variety of topics and Other companies

She also speaks at other events. Cyndi The Journal of Radiology published a 2013 article about the care of an ICU patient during radiographic tests. A pocket guide to assessment skills has been developed by her and is available through PESI Healthcare. and 35 webinars were created on a range of topics related to nursing and These are medical topics.

She also holds 3 undergraduate degrees, including a BSN in Nursing. and 28 credits toward her Family Nurse Practitioner diploma. She was a US Naval Officer for ten-years, retiring as an LCDR(Lieutenant Commander) after completing her service. Prior to becoming a nurse she worked as a counselor for the mentally impaired. and It was dangerous to be in a southern Minnesota facility. After leaving the military, she returned to the facility as a Lead Psychoiatric Nurse for two more years. Clinical Review, a Minnesota-based legal nurse consulting company, is where she lives. and In medical cases, he has served as a witness expert.