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Overview
To provide nurses and dietitians with a more in-depth understanding of mechanical ventilation and the weaning process for critically ill patients.Goals and Learning Outcomes
Caring for mechanically ventilated patients is one of the most commonly used technologies and challenging parts of nursing care. Promoting patient safety is paramount in caring for mechanically ventilated patients. Patients who require mechanical ventilation for more than three days are at an increased risk to develop complications, prolonged length of stay in the ICU, ventilator dependence, and death. The nurse and other healthcare professionals must understand current modes and settings of ventilation, exercise-appropriate assessment, ventilation management skills, and safe and successful weaning techniques. Mechanical ventilation is initiated in the ICU for various reasons, including acute respiratory failure or arrest (the most common reason), exacerbation of COPD, coma, neurological diseases, and postoperative ventilation support. During acute respiratory failure, a patient cannot maintain normal ventilation and gas exchange. The primary goals of mechanical ventilation are to enhance pulmonary gas exchange, decrease work of breathing, increase lung volume, reduce respiratory muscle fatigue, reverse respiratory distress and respiratory failure, improve hypoxemia, and facilitate lung healing.
- Describe current modes and ventilator settings
- Discuss the nursing care of mechanically ventilated patients
- Discuss methods of ventilator weaning to ensure safe patient outcomes
- Describe current modes and ventilator settings.
- Discuss the nursing care of mechanically ventilated patients.
- Discuss methods of ventilator weaning to ensure safe patient outcomes.
Course Details
Course Originally Released on : 5/1/2019
REL-ACU-0-CE604
Course Author
CRNA, MSN
MEd, BSN, RN, CCRN
MS, RRT, RCP, NRP
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
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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.