Continuing education for nursing contact hours and CRNIR recertification units.

摘要

To provide registered professional nurses with information to increase their knowledge about current issues affecting intravenous nursing practice. After reading these articles and taking this test, you should be able to: Therapeutic Phlebotomy: A Review of Diagnoses and Treatment Considerations 1. Describe 4 classifications of blood disorders and how to manage them with therapeutic phlebotomy. Refractory Response to Platelet Transfusion Therapy 2. Explain the causes, prevention, and management of refractoriness in response to platelet transfusion therapy. Best Practices in Multiple Sclerosis: Infusion Reactions versus Hypersensitivity Associated with Biologic Therapies 3. Discuss the early identification and management of infusion and hypersensitivity reactions during the administration of biologic therapies to patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Intravenous Administration Issues: A Comparison of Intravenous Insertions and Complications in Vancomycin versus Other Antibiotics 4. Compare and quantify adverse outcomes between 2 groups of surgical patients with peripheral intravenous (PIV) catheters who received antibiotics.