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Critical Care Skills Boot Camp Essential and Advanced Concepts from Cyndi Zarbano

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All nurses today need the specialized skills, knowledge, and competency
to care for critically ill and unstable patients.

Through the course videos, case studies, tips, and time-savers, you’ll master the concepts of critical care nursing and become an expert in your clinical practice.

Rapid Assessment: including 5 essentials components of a “down and dirty” assessment
ABG Analysis: explore the most common causes of arterial blood gas abnormalities
Rhythm Strip Interpretation: along with 3 most common dysrhythmias
Advanced Cardiac Care: containing preload, contractility and afterload impacting cardiac output
Advanced Neurological Care: together with 5 common causes of delirium
Mechanical Ventilation Management: incorporating 2 ways to increase the ventilator patient’s oxygenation status
And much more!

Join expert Cyndi Zarbano, MSN, BSN, CCRN, CEN, PCCN, CMSRN, CLNC, NLCP, for this innovative critical care nursing course that will revitalize your career. You’ll master specialized critical care skills, increase your credibility, and grow your career potential — most importantly, you’ll improve your patients’ treatment outcomes.

In this comprehensive online course, Cyndi Zarbano will guide you step-by-step through Critical Care — from what is absolutely essential to advanced critical thinking, including:

MODULE 1:
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

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

MODULE 2:
Advanced Management of Complex and Critically Ill Patients

The Master Critical Care Skills 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:

Critical Care Certification Review • Core content for advanced critical care nurses
Advanced cardiac care/hemodynamics • Advanced Neurological care • Mechanical ventilation management

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

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!

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

About the Speaker:
CYNDI ZARBANO, MSN, BSN, CCRN, CEN, PCCN, CMSRN, CLNC, NLCPCyndi Zarbano is an intensive care nurse with over 20 years of nursing experience who is currently practicing in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. She is a nationally-recognized seminar speaker who has opened multiple national symposiums and speaks on several topics for PESI, as well as a variety of other companies in the US and Canada. In addition to her speaking engagements, Cyndi is a published author with a variety of books including Clinical Nursing Assessment Skills Pocket Guide and the Medical Surgical Nurses Pocket Guide. Her products also include textbooks, webcasts and webinars.Along with her MS and BSN in nursing, she has 3 other undergraduate degrees and multiple nursing certifications. She served as a US Naval Officer for 10 years, leaving service as an LCDR (Lieutenant Commander) in 2001. Prior to nursing, she worked as a counselor with the mentally ill and dangerous in a facility in southern Minnesota. She returned to that facility as a Lead Psychiatric Nurse for two years after leaving the military. Additionally, Cyndi has a legal nurse consulting business and continues to serve as a testifying expert in medical related cases. Cyndi’s teaching style is dynamic and high energy while informal and easy to understand. You will leave her program with a renewed commitment to achieving nursing excellence in critical care.Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Cyndi Zarbano has an employment relationship with Fairview South. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Nonfinancial: Cyndi Zarbano has no relevant nonfinancial relationships to disclose.

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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.

Critical Care Skills Boot Camp Essential and Advanced Concepts from Cyndi Zarbano

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Critical Care Skills Boot Camp Essential and Advanced Concepts from Cyndi Zarbano