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2-Day Critical Care Skills Boot Camp from Cyndi Zarbano

Faculty:Cyndi Zarbano

Duration:2 Full Days | Format:Audio and Video

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Get the Latest Clinical Information On:

Crisis Management
ABG Analysis
Rhythm Interpretation in 5 Easy Steps
Central Line Care
Mechanical Ventilation
And Much More!

DAY ONE: ESSENTIAL ASSESSMENT, INTERPRETATION AND INTERVENTION STRATEGIES

Critically ill patients are everywhere these days – on the Med-Surg floor, in the ICU, the PACU, the ED, the OR, even long-term care! A good working knowledge of the concepts for managing high-acuity patients is indispensable.

Join Cyndi Zarbano and learn the latest in essential critical care skills that you must know to be successful, including:

Rapid Assessment
ABG Analysis
Central Line Care
Easy Strip Interpretation

OUTLINE

Identification & Management of Crisis

Master “down and dirty” prompt assessment skills
End the “Red Flags”
Rapid stabilizing interventions for the unstable patient
Manage the decompensating patient
Better outcomes through quick intervention

Easy Steps to ABG Analysis

Acid base imbalance
4 abnormal findings when reading your lab result
A simple tool to rapidly and efficiently interpret ABG’s!

The 5 Steps to Rhythm Strip Interpretation

Systematically reviewing the major components of a rhythm strips
Identifying rhythm changes and management of:
Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter
Paroxysmal Supra-Ventricular Tachycardia (PSVT)
V-Tach and V-Fib

Managing Chest Drainage

Indications for chest tubes
Circumventing re-expansion pulmonary edema
Avoiding common complications of chest drainage

Master Central Line Care

Common issues experienced with central lines
Using which port for what on a triple lumen PICC
Use of a “cell-saver” to reduce lost hemoglobin during blood draws
The challenge of CVP monitoring

Pacemakers & AICDs

Indications for pacemakers
Meaning of pacemaker codes
Types of Pacemakers
Device management
Practical solutions to common pacemaker problems

End-of-Life Care in the ICU

The needs of the patient
Practical tips to help your patients and families with the end-of-life journey

OBJECTIVES

Identify 5 essentials components of a “down and dirty” assessment in your patient when they have a sudden decomposition in health status.
State 3 rapid interventions that can stabilize a patient who is symptomatic with a low blood pressure.
Recognize the most common causes of arterial blood gas abnormalities.
Quickly identify the 3 most common dysrhythmias using rhythm strip interpretation.
Manage the risk to avoid re-expansion pulmonary edema in the patient with a chest tube for pleural effusion.
Review the correct technique for opening an occluded central line lumen.
Summarize the difference between failure to capture and failure to sense in a pacemaker and how each is resolved.
Recognize the three biggest concerns patients recognize at end of life.

DAY TWO: ADVANCED MANAGEMENT OF COMPLEX AND CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS

The Advanced Management of Complex and Critically Ill Patients seminar will give you a strong foundation, while integrating tips, timesavers, and stories about real nurses who make a difference in their patient’s lives. This seminar will teach you to master the concepts of critical care and become an expert in your clinical practice. Learn advanced critical care concepts and interventions, including:

Advanced cardiac care/hemodynamics
Advanced neurological care
Mechanical ventilation management

OUTLINE

Understand Hemodynamics Today

Cardiac Output = Heart Rate x Stroke Volume
- Use a simple analogy to learn the components and finally get it
Preload, Afterload and Contractility
Manipulating the mathematical equation to stabilize

The ICU Trio in Crisis!

IV Fluids – picking the right one for the situation
5 pressor agents – How they work when to use them
- Blood products! FFP, Platelets, PRBC’s and Cryoprecipitate

Demystify Hemodynamic Waveforms and Correctly Measuring Each

Assessment clues to hemodynamic instability
Central Venous Pressures
Arterial Lines
Swan Ganz Catheters

Mechanical Ventilation for Nurses

How to manage patients on ventilators
Avoiding Ventilator Acquired Pneumonia (VAP)
Using CPAP or BiPAP

Manage Shock

Assessment and management of:
- Cardiogenic Shock
- Septic Shock
- Hypovolemic Shock

Manage the Neuro Patient

Use a “5-point Neuro Check” to easily identify changes in condition
Stroke and Stabilization
- Ischemic
- Hemorrhagic
Delirium
How to assess & intervene

Life-threatening EKG Changes: Clues from the 12-Lead

Spectrum of coronary artery ischemia
5-step method for finding myocardial ischemia and injury
STEMI and NSTEMI – What’s the difference?
Location, location, location!

OBJECTIVES

Summarize the difference between preload, contractility and afterload as components impacting cardiac output.
Identify correct locations for measuring CVP, Arterial Line and Wedge waveforms.
Differentiate between hypotonic, isotonic and hypertonic IV fluids and when each is considered most effective.
Recognize the blood product of choice for Disseminated Intravascular Coagulopathy.
Contrast the difference between hypovolemic shock, septic shock and cardiovascular shock in both assessment and treatment priorities.
Identify two ways to increase the ventilator patient’s oxygenation status.
Compare and contrast CPAP and BiPAP, as well as their target populations.
State 5 common causes of delirium.
Identify the difference between a STEMI and NSTEMI.

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About Author

Cyndi Zarbano

Cyndi Zarbano, MSN, BSN, CCRN, CEN, PCCN, CLNC, has been a nurse for more than 25 years and a legal nurse consultant (LNC) for 12. Many of her cases in the last decade have been consulting and educating nurses who have gotten into trouble with the board of nursing and helping them complete their corrective action stipulations. Medication errors and patient injury are a common cause of corrective action, license suspension and loss of license.

Cyndi’s clinical area of expertise has been in various intensive care/critical care roles, currently working for Mayo in Minnesota. She has been a national seminar speaker for over ten years speaking to diverse healthcare audiences throughout the country. During her presentations, she has earned the reputation of keeping attendees engaged with the use of current clinical knowledge, fascinating legal stories, and the interjection of nursing humor to keep it fun.