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Overview
The goal of this course is to educate nurses, respiratory therapists, and radiology services in all types of healthcare settings on CAP.Goals and Learning Outcomes
Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) can lead to sepsis. Furthermore, CAP is one of the most common infections seen in the emergency department. Each patient can present with varying severity of illness, from mild to severe, necessitating treatment in an outpatient setting or the intensive care unit (ICU). Timely interventions from multiple team members can significantly reduce morbidity and mortality rates. You will learn how CAP is defined, associated pathogens, signs and symptoms, along with treatment of patients with CAP. This course will go into detail about aspiration pneumonia.
This course has a maximum of 3 exam attempts.
- Discuss clinical practice guidelines recommendations and rationale for diagnosis and treatment of pneumonia developing in non-hospitalized patients.
- Describe etiology, risk factors, signs and symptoms, and complications associated with community-acquired pneumonia.
- Describe nursing and nutrition interventions for patients with community-acquired pneumonia.
- Recall general clinical practice guidelines for CAP
- Describe the etiology, risk factors, signs, and symptoms of CAP
- Describe team interventions for CAP
- List the differential diagnosis in a patient with suspected HCAP
- Review the organisms associated with HCAP
- Review the organisms associated with HCAP
Course Details
Course Originally Released on : 10/1/2022
REL-ACU-0-COAP
Course Author
MEd, RDN, CSSD, LDN, CDCES, FAND
MSN, RN, CCRN, CNL
MD, PhD
II, RPh
MS,RT(R)(M)
MT(ASCP)
MS, RD, LD
MD, MBA
MBA, RN
Accreditations
NURSES
In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP#13791
Disclaimer: Not all courses will provide California Board of Registered Nursing approval. Per California Assembly Bill No. 241, continuing education courses related to direct patient care shall address at least one or a combination of the following:(1) Examples of how implicit bias affects perceptions and treatment decisions of licensees, leading to disparities in health outcomes; or (2) Strategies to address how unintended biases in decision-making may contribute to health care disparities by shaping behavior and producing differences in medical treatment along lines of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics.
CEBroker
Relias LLC reports to CEBroker for the following boards (Provider # 50-1489): Arkansas State Board Of Nursing, District Of Columbia Board Of Nursing, Florida Board Of Nursing, Georgia Board Of Nursing, New Mexico Board Of Nursing, South Carolina Board Of Nursing and West Virginia Board Of Examiners For Registered Professional Nurses
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Disclosures
None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have 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.