Lesson 1: Patient Safety in Critical Care Medication Administration
- Identifies standards from regulatory bodies
- Culture of safety
- Role of the advanced practice registered nurse in medication reconciliation
- Medications commonly associated with errors
- System changes to prevent errors with oral and IV medication administration
Lesson 2: Introduction to Pharmacology Principles I: Pharmacokinetics
- Discusses the four phases of pharmacokinetics (absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination)
- Explores factors that affect pharmacokinetics, including disease states
- Differentiates different types of adverse drug effects
- Explores impact of aging, gender and genetic composition
- Implications of enteral feedings
- Effects of CYP450 enzymes
Lesson 3: Introduction to Pharmacology Principles II: Pharmacodynamics
- Agonists and antagonists
- Therapeutic windows (steady state)
- Titration and discontinuing continuous infusions
Lesson 4: Vasoactive Medications
- Vasodilator, vasopressor and inotropic drugs
- Angiotensin receptor neprilysin inhibitors
- Hyperosmolar therapy: hypertonic saline
Lesson 5: Antidysrhythmic Medications
- Class I, II and III antidysrhythmic medications
- Other medications that do not fall into above category, such as adenosine
- Beta-blocker toxicity
- Antithrombotic therapy with atrial fibrillation
- Treatment of supraventricular tachycardia during pregnancy
Lesson 6: Medications for Pain and Sedation
- Opioid analgesia
- Medications used for sedation
- Opioid-induced constipation
- Reversal agent: naloxone
- Current controversies in pain assessment and management
- Sedation and delirium
- Reversal agent: flumazenil
- Sedatives-hypnotics, including dexmedetomidine
- IV acetaminophen
Lesson 7: Paralytic Medications
- Non-depolarizing and depolarizing agents
- Appropriate nursing care to safeguard patients
- Assessment of patients receiving therapeutic paralysis using the train-of-four technique with the peripheral nerve stimulator
- Management of malignant hypothermia
- Management of shivering
- Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis (NOACs)
Lesson 8: Blood and Blood Products
- Whole blood
- Packed red blood cells
- Leukocyte-reduced red blood cells
- Washed red blood cells
- Fresh frozen plasma
- Cryoprecipitate
- Albumin
- Transfusion reactions
- Transfusion administration process
- Crystalloids and colloids to treat hemorrhagic and hypovolemic shock; compensatory response to blood loss
- Decision to transfuse
- FP24
- Multiple electrolytes solution
- Non-blood product coagulopathy reversal agents