Spring Simulation 4.30.2021

West Mifflin, PA US

Combination of individual HPS sessions designed to evaluate the learner's combined knowledge, competence and performance.

Target Audience

Flight nurse and flight paramedics

Learning Objectives

Following the program, the learner will:

1. Demonstrate the integration of burn and trauma care with difficult airway management techniques for the care of the burned patient requiring advanced airway management.

2. Demonstrate the integration of care techniques and skill competency for a patient presenting with increased intracranial pressures, intracranial hemorrhage and externalized ventricular drain

3. Demonstrate the integration of care techniques for the pregnant patient suffering from preeclampsia, HELLP syndrome and Disseminated Intravascular Coagulopathy

4. Apply the concepts of advanced mechanical ventilation to the infant patient requiring complex ventilatory support for transport to a pediatric specialty center

5. Perform a medical consult utilizing the new consult template with the medical directors

6. Demonstrate the skills of surgical cricothyrotomy

7. Demonstrate the functions of the Zoll X transport monitor

 

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 4.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
Course opens: 
04/30/2021
Course expires: 
06/14/2021
STAT MedEvac
10 Allegheny County Airport
West Mifflin, PA 15122
United States
+1 (412) 460-3000

Course provided outline

Marion Jones, RN, MSN

Eugene F Macaraeg, RN, BSN

Francis X Guyette, MD

Christian Martin-Gill, MD

Dylan Morris, MD

Lenny Weiss, MD

 

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh 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.

 

The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is _4_ contact hours.

 

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.  

Available Credit

  • 4.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
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