Session Summary
Prerequisite: APRNs who perform these skills in their daily practice. The purpose of this session is to provide APRNs with the unique opportunity to review anatomy and practice various critical care skills. APRN participants enhance their understanding of various procedures and associated risks and benefits through an in-depth, hands-on cadaver practicum. A comprehensive review of the anatomy includes airway, chest cavity, vascular and intraosseous access landmarks and exploration. Participants work in various body areas with API-based instructors to broaden their knowledge of airway management with videoscopy, central line placement, chest tube placement and intraosseous placement. Suturing techniques are reviewed with central line and chest tube placement.
Objectives
- Identify the anatomical landmarks for the critical care procedures.
- Identify vascular assessment criteria for device and site selection.
- Review suture techniques in available cadaver areas.
Topics
MultiSystem
Population
Adult
Role
APRN
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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 3.50 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.