Session Summary
Transitioning end-of-life care patients from full ventilatory support poses significant risk for respiratory distress and suffering in patients. However, an ICU nurse-led, respiratory therapist-supported, patient-centered ventilator-withdrawal algorithm and assessment exists to evaluate respiratory distress in patients receiving care per the algorithm versus those receiving usual care. Nurses in a community hospital share evidence-based implementation strategies to reduce respiratory distress.
Objectives
- Describe usual state of terminal extubation at a community hospital compared to an evidence-based ventilator weaning algorithm.
- Explain how the evidence-based tool RDOS objectively assesses respiratory distress in a patient who cannot self-report.
- Identify how a ventilator-weaning algorithm reduces respiratory distress after extubation at end of life.
Topics
Palliative/End-of-life Care
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 1.25 contact hours.
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Activities with pharmacology hours are to assist the APRN in fulfilling the pharmacotherapeutic education requirements for licensure and certification renewals.
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Refund Policy
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