Assessing Your Patients Perfusion Without Elaborate Equipment

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

Your patient just doesn’t look right. You don’t have invasive measures to evaluate hemodynamics and perfusion. What do you do? This intermediate level session looks at non-invasive measures you know but may not think of to evaluate the patient’s status. It covers the body’s mechanisms to regulate perfusion, non-invasive assessment and evidence-based management strategies. Several case studies are used to integrate the information and enhance early intervention skills.

Objectives

Identify the normal mechanisms of the body to maintain perfusion to vital organs.
Assess the hemodynamic status of patients utilizing physical assessment findings, vital signs, laboratory results and acid base status.
Discuss early evidence-based management based on your assessment.

Continuing Education Disclosure Statement

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 1.10 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.