Fri, Jul 05
|Beats and Breaths Academy, Edmonton, AB
Rural-Urban Acute Care Review Workshop (July 5, 2024)
Rural-Urban Acute Care Review – 1 day workshop is an in-person 8 hour session that teaches the bedside acute care practice expectations and routine time management overview by an experienced Registered Nurse in current practice experience. Are you new to Alberta Hospital care? Join our workshop!
Time & Location
Jul 05, 2024, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Beats and Breaths Academy, Edmonton, AB, 11729 105 Ave NW #202, Edmonton, AB T5H 0L9, Canada
Guests
About the Event
Boost your confidence in your skills at bedside nursing in rural or urban acute care settings. This workshop is helpful for those staff working in Long-term care, Home care and Clinics who are planning to transition to hospital acute care, medical and surgical care department.
Course Objectives:
a) Acute care unit expectations and guidelines
b) Admitting and assessment
c) Discharge teaching and process
d) Patient transfers – interfacility and in-hospital
e) Policy and procedures awareness
f) Unit-specific competency checklist
g) Unit specific Disease conditions
h) Unit-specific interventions
i) Unit-specific medications
j) Unit-specific surgical procedures
k) Unit-specific diagnostic procedures and process
l) Hand over report
m) Time management
n) Daily unit flow – staff-to-patient ratio
o) Daily routines
p) Unit-specific vitals machines, bedside monitors, and glucometer education
q) VTE prophylaxis
r) Mobility assessment
s) Fall prevention, risk management, and identification
t) Tubes and drains assessment and management review
u) Unit culture/background
v) RLS process
Upon successful completion of the 8-hour workshop, each participant shall receive a certificate of attendance.