Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: 01/19/2015
- Time: 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
Managing Nursing Emergencies
Identify the Red Flags
Triage: Every Nurse Needs It
- Identify red flags in patient presentation
- Critical thinking
- Advanced identification skills
- Prioritizing patient acuity
Rapid Assessment and Medical History Techniques
- Triangle triage
- ABCD assessment in less than 10 seconds
- The importance of asking the right questions to get the most important information
- Quick and thorough rapid assessments
- General
- Neurological
- Cardiovascular
- Pulmonary
- Psychosocial
Neurological Emergencies
Prevention, Presentation, Action for:
Intracranial pressure: Concepts of volume and pressure
Malignant headache
Cerebrovascular accident (CVA)
Delirium
Autonomic dysreflexia
Cardiac Emergencies
Prevention, Presentation, Action for:
“I’m having chest pain…”
Acute coronary syndromes
- Ischemia: Stable vs. unstable
- Non-STEMI
- STEMI
Heart failure
Pulmonary embolism
Pulmonary Emergencies
Prevention, Presentation, Action for:
Respiratory failure
COPD: Emphysema and chronic bronchitis
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
Endocrine Emergencies
Prevention, Presentation, Action for:
Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA)
Hypoglycemia
Fluid Imbalance/Circulatory Emergencies
Prevention, Presentation, Action for:
Sepsis
- SIRS to Septic Shock
Hemorrhage and Delayed Hemorrhage
- Shock
- Delayed hemorrhage in trauma
- GI bleeds
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm
Compartment Syndromes
- Extremity
- Abdominal