{{ (moduleVm.actions && moduleVm.changeStatus) ? moduleVm.status : '' }} Journal of Emergency Nursing, January 2011: Clinical Articles
Activity Steps
Purpose of Activity
To provide registered professional nurses with information to increase their knowledge about current issues affecting emergency nursing practice.Learning Objectives
After completing this continuing education activity you will be able to:
1. Discuss the street name, pharmacokinetics, effects, and
treatment for ingestion of methylenedioxymethamphetamine
(MDMA).
2. List 2 forms of cardiac glycosides and the symptoms and
assessment of acute toxicity.
3. Discuss the American Heart Association?s (AHA?s) guidelines
for ECG acquisition and interpretation for patients
with suspected acute coronary syndromes (ACS) and the
results of a study evaluating time to ECG.
4. Describe the effects of sedation and pain medications in
the older adult.
5. Describe methods for the early detection and treatment
of sepsis.
6. Discuss the incidence of dysphagia after stroke and the assessment
of swallowing function.
Credits:
- ANCC 5.0 CH
- DC - BON 5.0 CH
- KY-BON 5.0 CH