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Course # 3045 • Moderate Sedation/Analgesia

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1. Define moderate sedation, including the goals and objectives.
2. Detail the necessary components of the preprocedural patient care period, including patient assessment, patient selection, and patient preparation.
3. List the duties and responsibilities while providing care for the patient receiving moderate sedation medications.
4. Detail patient care provided during the postsedation period, including the minimal parameters that should be met by the patient prior to discharge after sedation.
5. Present the advantages and disadvantages of the various methods and routes of medication administration.
6. Review the most commonly utilized pharmacologic agents for moderate sedation.
7. List the advantages, disadvantages, and limitations of pulse oximetry and monitoring end-tidal carbon dioxide in the sedation setting.
8. Describe the various techniques for cardiac monitoring. Explain the advantages of each of these methods.
9. Outline the role of bispectral indexing in moderate sedation patients.
10. Develop a sedation documentation form that includes the appropriate information.
11. Discuss the most common complications occurring during or after moderate sedation.
12. Outline the anatomic and physiologic differences between children and adults and how these differences impact pediatric moderate sedation patients.
13. Describe the anatomic and physiologic differences in the elderly and the impact of these differences on the administration of sedation.
14. Explain how sedation practices should be altered in sedating the obstetric patient.
15. Review issues that impact moderate sedation administration for patients in the intensive care unit or undergoing procedural interventions.
16. Identify practice issues for nurses administering moderate sedation.

Faculty:

Susan Engman Lazear, RN, MN, received her undergraduate education at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Nursing in Washington, D.C. After completing her BSN, she served as an Army Nurse at Letterman Army Medical Center in San Francisco for four years. She then attended the University of Washington School of Nursing and received a Master's in Nursing, specializing in Burn, Trauma and Emergency Nursing. After receiving her MN, she started Airlift Northwest, the air ambulance service based in Seattle which serves the entire Northwest region, including Alaska. Mrs. Lazear left the air ambulance service to start her own nursing education and consulting business, Specialists in Medical Education. For the past 20 years she has been teaching emergency nursing courses throughout the country. She lives in the Seattle area. Mrs. Lazear continues to teach and publish. She is both an editor and contributing author of Critical Care Nursing, published by W.B. Saunders Company, in June of 1992. She served as an author and reviewer of the Emergency Nursing Core Curriculum 6th Edition, published by W.B. Saunders Company in 2007. She has been named to the Who's Who in American Healthcare list annually since 1992.

Division Planner(s):

Jane C. Norman, RN, MSN, CNE, PhD

Faculty Disclosure

Contributing faculty, Susan Engman Lazear, RN, MN, has disclosed no relevant financial relationship with any product manufacturer or service provider mentioned.

Division Planner Disclosure

The division planner has disclosed no relevant financial relationship with any product manufacturer or service provider mentioned.

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