What You’ll Uncover in Dr. Paul Langlois 2-Day Advanced Assessment Skills Respond to the Patient’s Clues with Skill and Confidence
- College:
- Dr. Paul Langlois
- Length:
- Two Full Days
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Apr 20, 2020
Description
Perhaps your intuition kicked in with a affected person you cared for in the previous. You knew one thing was ‘off’. However what was it? Have you ever at all times felt assured that you just had performed sufficient…
Have you ever ever been perplexed with symptom findings in your affected person’s historical past or bodily examination? If a laboratory check, 12-lead ECG, or arterial blood fuel have been ordered, would you have the option to interpret the findings – with out lacking one thing necessary? Whether or not you’ve been in observe for many years or just some years, selecting up on the refined clues from the affected person is usually a problem to grasp. With out the abilities to shortly determine issues and provoke applicable interventions, you might be placing your affected person, and your license, in danger.
Watch nationally-acknowledged speaker, Dr. Paul Langlois, APN, PhD, CCRN, CCNS, CNRN, on this recording to achieve highly effective new scientific insights and crucial considering abilities so that you gained’t want to really feel unsure or scared anymore. You’ll be taught by thrilling affected person case research, strengthened with useful new scientific mnemonics. End this intense course with elevated confidence in your potential to conduct differential symptom evaluation, interpret the laboratory implications, skillfully learn 12-lead ECGs, doc your findings, and, in the end, choose the interventions to guarantee the finest outcomes on your affected person. You’ll expertise the dramatic adjustments in your individual observe once you work your subsequent shift!
Handouts
| Guide – 2-Day Advanced Assessment Skills (69.5 MB) | 309 Pages | Obtainable after Buy |
Define
Psychosocial Assessment
- CALM acronym: How to set the individual relaxed throughout your evaluation
- Three key components in figuring out the psychosocial evaluation
- Confirmed methods to assess stress in the affected person
- Two methods to shortly determine suicidal ideation
- Is that this an accident or abuse or neglect?
Basic Survey of the Affected person: What You See is What You Get…Nicely Not At all times
- Symptom evaluation…use the COLDSPA acronym
- What the blood stress and pulse inform you about the affected person…even earlier than the stethoscope
- 4 confirmed methods to differentiate neuropathic and non-neuropathic ache
- Key steps when a affected person says that they’ve a situation you’ve by no means heard of
- Are the affected person’s medicines inflicting the drawback…test the Beers standards
Look Into My Eyes
- Pink-flags you will need to pay attention to concerning the eyes
- How medicines have an effect on the eye examination
- Differentiating visible acuity and visible fields…affect of the cranial nerves
Respiratory System…A lot Greater than Breath Sounds
- Three age-associated adjustments in the lungs you will need to know
- The stethoscope is significant, however so are your fingers
- How to differentiate bronchial asthma, emphysema, pneumonia, and pleural effusion
- Keys to point out the affected person wants a chest radiograph
- The ABCs of ABGs: 4 confirmed methods to distinction respiratory vs. metabolic acidosis and alkalosis
- 4 different laboratory checks to assess lung perform
- Medicines for pulmonary situations
Cardiovascular System…Past the Coronary heart
- Decide if that adventitious sound is throughout systole or diastole
- Murmurs, rubs, opening snaps…what do all of them imply?
- What does the ECHO cardiogram inform you?
- Establish the location of the ischemia, harm, or infarction based mostly on the 12-lead ECG
- Laboratory checks for coronary heart situations…Coronary heart failure, myocardial infarction, pericarditis
- Pearls for an intensive peripheral vascular evaluation…arteries, veins, and lymph nodes
- Should-know classes of medicines that deteriorate the coronary heart
Gastro-intestinal System…Past the Giant and Small Gut
- Don’t fear about this prevalent discovering…it’s age associated
- GI laboratory checks which can be important for affected person evaluation
- Might this be most cancers or a traditional discovering?
- 4 most-ordered GI procedures and differential analysis
- The impact of medicines on the GI tract
Genitourinary System
- Differentiate cystitis, UTI, and pyelonephritis…ought to medicines be prescribed?
- ”There may be blood in my urine”; what you want to do proper now on your affected person
- GU laboratory check and procedures; how to interpret the outcomes
- How distinction dyes have an effect on the kidney…be careful for these indicators
Musculoskeletal System
- ”I’ve this again ache”; what you want to do now earlier than the ache progresses
- Differentiating muscular ache and nerve injury
- 5 time-honored checks for the musculoskeletal system
- Medicines that facilitate fluidity in the MS system
Neurologic System
- Differentiating two- and three-reflex arcs
- 4 pearls when conducting cranial nerve evaluation
- Is that this a motor or sensory drawback?
- Two checks for meningitis which don’t require cerebral spinal fluid
- Forms of seizures and the newest remedy choices
- 4 lethal infections of the neurologic system
- Does your affected person want an MRI, Positron emission tomography, or CT scan?
- Neurologic monitoring: Intraventricular, intraparenchymal, mind oxygen stress
Assessment of the Aged Affected person
- Head to toe variations in the evaluation of the aged affected person
- ”I can’t appear to keep in mind…is that this regular?” Cognitive alterations occurring as we age
- These laboratory parameters differ in the aged
- The impact of medicines on the aged
Speedy Assessment of the Decompensating Affected person
- AMPLE acronym: A should-know to shortly and precisely collect affected person data
- ”I’ve ache”…the PQRST acronym is significant to assist the affected person
- Get these labs instantly for a crashing affected person
College
Dr. Paul Langlois, APN, Ph.D., CCRN, CCNS, CNRN Associated seminars and merchandise: 21
Dr. Paul Langlois, APN, Ph.D., CCRN, CCNS, CNRN, is a crucial care scientific specialist in the Surgical, Medical, Neurologic, Burn, CCU and Trauma ICUs of Prepare dinner County Hospital, Chicago. Drawing on over 30 years of expertise assessing and managing sufferers with life-threatening ailments, Dr. Langlois gives superior-stage coaching to nurses, doctor assistants, nurse practitioners and physicians. Dr. Langlois obtained his Physician of Nursing diploma from Rush College in Chicago, Illinois.
Dr. Langlois is dedicated to offering the highest high quality of care to sufferers by superior training. His shows are proof-based mostly, well timed and present members with case research to facilitate crucial considering. As a bedside scientific nurse specialist, he has developed a number of establishment-extensive protocols for the multidisciplinary evaluation and administration of the cardiac, neurologic, septic, and multi-system organ failure affected person.
His shows are enthusiastically delivered and supply sensible suggestions that assist make the most difficult ideas straightforward to perceive. Linking information to scientific observe is the objective of each instructional program.
Speaker Disclosures:
Monetary: Paul Langlois has an employment relationship with Prepare dinner County Hospital. He receives a talking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-monetary: Paul Langlois has no related non-monetary relationship to disclose.
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