Session Summary
Home Alone is a Christmas classic that we watch year after year. Have you ever wondered how the Wet Bandits, aka Harry and Marv, survived all of the traumatic traps that Kevin set during their foiled robbery attempt? Attend this fast-paced and humorous lecture to review the mechanisms of injury, kinetics, trauma, and ICU management priorities for penetrating, blunt, and burn injuries. Do your homework and come learn about your weapon of choice for the next time you’re… home alone!
Objectives
- • Participants will list the traumatic mechanism of injuries (MOI) found in the movie Home Alone
- • Participants will list the consequences of kinetic energy creating tissue injury based on mechanism of injury
- • Participants will list trauma and ICU stabilization priorities for penetrating, blunt, thermal, and rapid deceleration traumas
Topics
MultiSystem, Trauma
Population
Adult
Role
Staff
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Successful Completion
Learners must complete the entire activity and the associated evaluation to be awarded contact hours AND read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes. No partial credit will be awarded.
Accreditation
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider number CEP 1036, for 1.00 contact hours.
Disclosure
Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content will be identified by the Nurse Planner within the activity. Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content has been mitigated.
Accreditation refers to recognition of continuing education only and does not imply AACN, ANCC, or CBRN approval or endorsement of any commercial products discussed or displayed in conjunction with this educational activity.
Activities with pharmacology hours are to assist the APRN in fulfilling the pharmacotherapeutic education requirements for licensure and certification renewals.
Activities meet the standards for most states that require mandatory continuing education for license and/or certification renewal. AACN recommends consulting with your own state board of nursing or credentialing organization before submitting your certificate of completion.
Refund Policy
Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.