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Overview
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Overview
Overview

Non-anesthesia professionals are becoming increasingly involved in the administration of moderate sedation. This requires specific competencies consistent with state and federal regulations, organizational policies, and the practitioner’s scope of practice, education, and training.

Goals and Outcomes
Goals and Learning Outcomes
The goal of the course is to equip RNs in acute care facilities with knowledge of safe moderate sedation practices needed for optimizing patient outcomes.
Disclaimer: This course discusses the care and management of patients receiving moderate sedation, but some of the content may NOT align with every learner’s state regulations and organizational policies. It is every licensed practitioner’s responsibility to know and comply with state and federal regulations and institutional policies as they apply to the administration of moderate sedation.
After taking this course, you should be able to:
  • Identify the levels of the sedation continuum and indications suggesting a patient is deeper than intended.
  • Define the periprocedural nursing responsibilities and considerations for administering medications during moderate sedation.
  • Recall the preprocedural considerations and recommendations for monitoring patients receiving moderate sedation.
Details
Course Details

Course Originally Released on : 12/20/2022

REL-ACU-0-MSP

Course Author

Brandy Verton

BSN, RN, CNOR

Accreditations
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

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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.