Ventilator Management: Essential Skills for Non-ICU Nurses- free 60 min. Webinar

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Part of the ANA COVID-19 Webinar Series

Ventilator Management: Essential Skills for Non-ICU Nurses

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You may soon be faced with one of the most challenging aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic: The need for nurses with little or no critical care experience being called on to be part of a team caring for severely ill COVID-19 patients, many of whom must be on a ventilator to survive.

Taught by a highly experienced critical care nurse specialist and educator, this program presents key skills needed when caring for a patient on a ventilator.

Presented through a partnership between ANA and the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN).

Content is presented in an easy-to-understand – and use -- manner. After viewing this webinar, you will be better prepared to be an effective part of a team caring for critically ill patients on a ventilator.

This 60-minute on-demand webinar contains four sections which you can view all at once or one at a time. Topics include:

• Basic ventilator settings and abbreviations such as rate, tidal volume, PEEP, and the modes of ventilation commonly encountered for patients with respiratory failure and ARDS
• How to assess a patient on a ventilator: Important differences compared to routine patient assessments
• Ventilator alarms: The how to’s of ventilator alarm assessment and troubleshooting measures and interventions for apnea, high pressure (including how to suction a patient with an ETT), high minute ventilation, and low pressure/low minute ventilation
• How to assist during intubation

Register: https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/2284129/FD4A1CC1FFC9C3556B4BA3715BDBE4AA