A Day in the Life of a Nurse

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Robin Gilbert, MSN, RN, CEN, CPEN Related seminars and products

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Robin Gilbert, MSN, RN, CEN, CPEN, has over 25 years’ experience in emergency nursing. She is both a certified emergency nurse and certified pediatric emergency nurse. Robin has experience as an emergency department manager, manager of cardiac & pulmonary rehabilitation and currently as the regional manager for staff development at Central Main Medical Center. She instructs the NCLEX review class for Kaplan and tutors nursing students online for a local college of nursing. Her experience also includes having been an item writer for the Board Certification of Emergency Nursing and a former chairperson. In her current role, Robin is able to remain up to date in the trends and best practice standards for care in emergency nursing. Robin received her BSN from Curry College, Massachusetts and her MSN from Saint Joseph’s College, Maine. Robin is an active member of the Emergency Nurses Association, the American Nurses Association, Society of Critical Care Medicine, and is a reviewer for the ANCC’s Pathway to Excellence.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Robin Gilbert has employment relationships with EBSCO, Rumford Hospital, Pathway to Excellence, and Kaplan University. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Robin Gilbert is a member of the Emergency Nurses Association.

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Objectives

1. Outline comprehensive patient management plans for the special patient population discussed
2. Apply the criteria for the diagnosis of EKG changes associated with pathophysiology
3. Review up-to-date therapeutic recommendations for patients with CVA
4. Discuss management treatment and troubleshooting of LVAD’s and Vests
5. Identify the most appropriate vasoactive agent for the clinical situation
6. Analyze management strategies specific to unstable pediatric patient
7. Describe evidence-based protocols for common obstetric emergencies
8. Discuss current and emerging trends in acute and critical care
9. Review basic ventilator settings used in critical care
10. Describe initial interventions to stabilize the hemodynamically unstable patient
11. Identify early symptoms in patient assessment that indicate the patient is deteriorating
12. Stay safe when a patient becomes agitated or even violent

Outline

Starting your Shift

• Unexpected bleeding disorders: Mallory Weiss Tear
• 40 y/o trauma patient received 36 units of PRC, 20 units of platelets, 12 units
  • FFP, 6 liters LR and develops ARDS post-operatively
    • ECMO for ARDS
• Let’s talk stroke: Get my drift?
• Heart failure and pulmonary edema
• DI or SIADH

You Want Me to Float Where?

• Ventilator management basics
• Postpartum emergencies: I don’t do OB!
• Geriatric trauma patients: When golden years meet the golden hour
• 2nd degree AV block in elderly patient presenting with dizziness for 1 week. Offending agents: β-Blockers and calcium channel blockers (Rx CE – 0.5 hour)
• MI Imposters

Out of My Comfort Zone

• VADs, Vests: Fashionable but I Know Nothing About Them
• REBOA: Non-trauma, Hemorrhagic Shock Patient with Retroperitoneal Hemorrhage, Renal Perforation and Splenic Laceration
• He, she, her, him, they: Transgender care and communication
• Gunshot victims; chaos from the streets
  • When healthcare staff become victims; violent patients
• Pediatric RRT: I don’t do peds!
• Critical care drugs and drips

Target Audience

• Nurses: Medical-surgical units, ED, Critical Care areas, Urgent Care Clinics.
• Respiratory Therapists
• Advanced Practice Providers.