Course Summary
Contact Hour(s):
1 Contact Hour, including 1 Advanced Pharmacology Hour
Author:
Berthina Coleman, MD, BSN, RN
This peer-reviewed course is applicable for the following professions:
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN), Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA), Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS), Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), Licensed Vocational Nurses (LVN), Nursing Student, Registered Nurse (RN)
Accreditations:
The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
State Approvals:
Alabama, Provider #ABNP1485; California BRN Provider #CEP # 13509; Kentucky Board of Nursing Provider #7-0085; Florida Board of Nursing Provider 50-353
Course Description:
This course discusses caring for surgical patients. It provides a brief of preoperative risk assessment including cardiac risk assessment and the American Society of Anesthesiologists classification of perioperative risk. Post-operative care is also reviewed with an overview of common post-operative complications.
Outcomes:
≥ 92% of participants will know how to care for surgical patients.
Objectives:
After completing this continuing education course, the participant will be able to:
- Explain the components of a perioperative evaluation.
- Identify the concerns in conducting a perioperative cardiac risk assessment.
- Compare and contrast the categories of the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ physical status classification system.
- Describe the purpose of the Mallampati Score.
- List the common postoperative complications.
Disclosures:
CEUFast Inc. and the course planning team for this educational activity do not have any relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.