ABGs 202 Beyond the Basics: Understanding Complex Acid-Base Disorders for Advanced Practice Providers

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

Are you an APP who is comfortable with basic ABG interpretation? Step up your blood gas interpretation with double and triple acid-base disorders. Patients often do not come to us with just one medical problem. Learn how to interpret blood gasses when two or three different disorders occur simultaneously and how to account for hypoalbuminemia. Then apply this interpretation to a differential diagnosis. This highly interactive session includes plenty of practice to solidify these concepts with case-based practice.

Objectives

Understand how multiple disorders affect different blood gas values simultaneously.
Interpret advanced arterial blood gas labs.
Utilize case studies to practice complex ABG interpretation.

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 {contactHours} contact hours.

Disclosures

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.