Target audience: Nurses new to intermediate care.

For questions, contact Lynn Morris via email at Lynn.Morris@Baystatehealth.org

Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:

1. Discuss nursing care needs for the patient with respiratory dysfunction
2. Explain the nursing care needs for a patient requiring a ventilator.
3. Describe the nursing care and management of the thoracic patient

Faculty

Karen LaFrance, MSN, RN-BC
Educator, D6B
Baystate Medical Center 

Lynn Morris, MSN, RN-BC
Educator, SW5
Baystate Medical Center 

Faculty Disclosure

The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education (CE) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options. Any relevant financial relationships are mitigated prior to the educational activity.

None of the planners or faculty 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. 

Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, Baystate Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. 

Nurses
Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 4 contact hour(s).
Nurses should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.