Objectives

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

1| Perform the setting up, programming, and documentation of a PCA and Epidural infusion.

2| Name the intended utilization and rationale for the various respiratory methods and resources.

3| Administer peritoneal dialysis to a simulated peritoneal cavity.

4| Demonstrate the access and de-access of portacath site. 

5| Interpret the reference for the maintenance and care of a central line.

6| Validate the competency of a wound vac dressing change.

7| Describe the nursing responsibility of caring for a patient with a chest tube.

8| Explain the proper procedure for a medication history task.

9| Review the process for preparing a patient for the operating room.

10| Perform the application, removal, and documentation of restraints.

11| Validate the competency of the Liko lifts for repositioning sheet, high back sling, and multistraps.

12| Review infection control policies in relation to contact precautions, droplet, airborne, and Covid precautions.

13| Perform a mock code situation to validate emergency care management.

14| Review the care of a septic patient and proper procedures to follow.

Faculty

Rachel Paciorek, BSN, RN
Clinical Nurse Educator
Med/Surg, Tele and ICU
Baystate Franklin 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.  Faculty or planner conflicts of interest are resolved before the educational activity.

None of the members of the faculty and planning committee for this educational event have commercial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods and services consumed by or used on patients.