Credit Hours: 1.5
License Types Eligible for Credits: RN, APRN, LN, CNA, CRT, RRT, RCP, CHT - Category B, CHRN - Category B
This 1.5 - hour online course is based on Hyperbaric Medicine Practice, Chapter 6: Hyperbaric Nursing.
KEY CONCEPTS
- The specialty of hyperbaric nursing has evolved since the 1950s along with the practice of hyperbaric medicine.
- Nurses, qualified by education, experience, and professional licensure, provide care for patients in the altered environment of the hyperbaric chamber.
- The art and science of nursing are uniquely combined in this setting as nurses not only deal with the technology of the hyperbaric chamber, the physiological monitoring and life-support equipment, but also with the art of psychologically adapting the patient and providing emotional support and patient and family education.
- The administrative aspects of setting up a hyperbaric medicine department and training and developing staff also fall into the realm of nursing.
- This course discusses the above listed aspects as well as the practical aspects of hyperbaric nursing.
Materials that you will need are provided with this course. However, the textbook, Hyperbaric Medicine Practice can be puchased from Best Publishing Company and will be a compliment to this course.
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COURSE TABLE CONTENTS
- Historical Perspectives
- Hyperbaric Nursing as a Specialty
- Qualifications for Hyperbaric Nurses
- Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Training
- The Role of the Hyperbaric Nurse
- The Hyperbaric Nurse Clinician
- The Nurse as Educator
- The Nurse as Researcher
- The Nurse as Manager
- Advanced Practice Nursing in Hyperbaric Medicine
- Pediatrics
- Trends
- References
Credit Hours: 1.5
License Types Eligible for Credits: RN, APRN, LN, CNA, CRT, RRT, RCP, CHT - Category B, CHRN - Category B
This 1.5 - hour online course is based on Hyperbaric Medicine Practice, Chapter 6: Hyperbaric Nursing.
KEY CONCEPTS
- The specialty of hyperbaric nursing has evolved since the 1950s along with the practice of hyperbaric medicine.
- Nurses, qualified by education, experience, and professional licensure, provide care for patients in the altered environment of the hyperbaric chamber.
- The art and science of nursing are uniquely combined in this setting as nurses not only deal with the technology of the hyperbaric chamber, the physiological monitoring and life-support equipment, but also with the art of psychologically adapting the patient and providing emotional support and patient and family education.
- The administrative aspects of setting up a hyperbaric medicine department and training and developing staff also fall into the realm of nursing.
- This course discusses the above listed aspects as well as the practical aspects of hyperbaric nursing.
This 1.5 - hour online course is based on the textbook, Hyperbaric Medicine Practice, Chapter 6: Hyperbaric Nursing.
Materials that you will need are provided with this course. However, the textbook, Hyperbaric Medicine Practice can be puchased from Best Publishing Company and will be a compliment to this course.
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