Cross Training Collection for Critical Care & Progressive Care Nursing

During the COVID-19 pandemic, you may have been presented with new opportunities to care for patients and support nursing colleagues in settings less familiar to you, including critical care or progressive care units.

While cross-training has its challenges, it also offers the chance to deepen your knowledge and acquire new skills, making you invaluable to the healthcare team.

If you were recently “rapidly onboarded” and have switched gears to care for the sickest patients, we’ve created this cross-training collection to help you recognize and manage different conditions, optimize patient care and understand technologies as you are asked to take on new responsibilities. Use these resources to learn, save time, and improve patient safety and outcomes.
  1.5 contact hours/$17.95

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More Resources for Critical Care and Progressive Care
 Cross Training

COVID-19

Guideline Summary

• Managing Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19

Nursing Pocket Cards

• Managing COVID-19 ARDS
• Prone Positioning: Mechanically Ventilated Patients
• Prone Positioning: Non-Intubated Patient with COVID-19 ARDS

Blog Post

• COVID-19 – Not Your "Typical" ARDS

Podcasts

• Latest updates on managing COVID-19
• Expert Nurse Interview on COVID-19 Guidelines
• COVID-19 ARDS and Proning: Learning in Real Time
• Managing multi-organ dysfunction of COVID-19
• Clearing the air about oxygenation in COVID-19 patients

Pneumonia/Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)/Mechanical Ventilation

Guideline Summaries

• Hospital-Acquired and Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
• Mechanical Ventilation in Adults with ARDS

Nursing Pocket Cards

• Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)
• Pneumonia in the Adult
• Caring for the Mechanically Ventilated Patient
• Mechanical Ventilation Settings and Basic Modes

Blog Posts

• How to Calculate the A-a Gradient
• Calculating Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) Severity
• Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS): When respiratory distress takes a turn for the worse
• Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS): Understanding lung protective strategies

Labs and Acid/Base Balance

Nursing Pocket Cards

• Arterial Blood Gas (ABG) Analysis
• Quick Guide to Lab Values: Fluids & Electrolytes

Blog Posts

• Anion Gap Acidosis: How Do I Calculate It? How Do I Interpret It?
• Elevated Lactate – Not just a marker for sepsis and septic shock

Hemodynamics/MI

Guideline Summary

• ST-Elevation MI

Nursing Pocket Cards

• Arterial Blood Gas (ABG) Analysis
• Hemodynamic Monitoring
• Myocardial Infarction

Podcast

• Mean Arterial Pressure

Blog Posts

• Cardiac Output and Cardiac Index – What's the Difference?
• Systemic Vascular Resistance and Pulmonary Vascular Resistance: What’s the Difference?
• Calculating the mean arterial pressure (MAP)

Sepsis

Guideline Summary

• Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock

Nursing Pocket Card

• Recognizing and Managing Sepsis

Blog Posts

• Managing Sepsis in COVID-19 Patients: What’s Different?
• Sepsis: What nurses need to know
• Laboratory signs of sepsis [Infographic]

Podcast

• Physiology Fundamentals: Sepsis

Infographic

• Sepsis Care: 2020 Update

Stroke

Nursing Pocket Cards

• Increased Intracranial Pressure
• Assessment and Management of Stroke
• Alteplase Injection for Acute Ischemic Events

Blog Posts

• Is There a Link Between COVID-19 and Stroke Risk?
• Increased Intracranial Pressure (ICP): What Nurses Need to Know
• Calculating Cerebral Perfusion Pressure

More ICU/PCU Essentials

• Transporting Critically Ill Patients (Nursing Pocket Card)
• A New Classification System for Cardiogenic Shock (Blog Post)
• Acute Complications of Diabetes (Nursing Pocket Card)
• Acute Kidney Injury and Chronic Kidney Disease - What's the Difference? (Blog Post)
• Complications of Central Vascular Access Devices (Nursing Pocket Card)
• Differentiating Delirium, Dementia, and Depression (Nursing Pocket Card)
• Heart Failure: Guideline-Directed Management and Therapy (Nursing Pocket Card)
• How Helpful is Fractional Excretion of Sodium? (Blog Post)
• I.V. Fluids (Nursing Pocket Card)
• Isolation precautions (Nursing Pocket Card)
• IV Push Medications (Guideline Summary)
• Just How Sick is My Patient with Pancreatitis? (Blog Post)
• Pain, Agitation, and Delirium in the ICU (Guideline Summary)
• Parenteral Nutrition (Nursing Pocket Card)
• Preventing and Managing Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (Nursing Pocket Card)
• Safe Medication Use in the ICU (Guideline Summary)
• Thyroid Emergencies (Nursing Pocket Card)