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Advanced Assessment & Diagnostic Skills Certificate Course

CE Information
20.5 CE credits
Completion Time
20 hours, 5 minutes
Available Until
December 31, 2025
Posted By
PESI
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Overview

Specialties
Family and Psychiatric / Mental Health
Subspecialties
Cardiovascular, Gastroenterology, Neurology, Respiratory/Pulmonology, and Urology
Clinical Topics
Radiology, Respiratory, and Urology

Without the ability to interpret critical findings from tests like laboratory tests, 12-lead ECGs, or arterial blood gases, you risk missing important symptoms and interventions that could jeopardize both your patient's well-being and your professional standing.

Learning Objectives

Objectives:

Integrate sound critical thinking and clinical decision-making.
Demonstrate advanced heath assessment knowledge and skills including therapeutic communication.
Manage a comprehensive database including functional assessment, psychological assessment, health and pharmacological history, and physical examination.
Formulate appropriate laboratory and diagnostic testing.
Evaluate findings of laboratory and diagnostic testing along with suggestions for treatment.
Determine a differential diagnosis based on assessment data.
Diagnose the area of the heart where ischemia, injury, or infarction are occurring based on 12-lead ECG.
Choose the best interventions for stabilization of the deteriorating patient.
Determine the key interventions to stabilize the successfully resuscitated patient.
Analyze the latest clinical practice guidelines for common pathologies and comorbidities.
Formulate documentation strategies to protect yourself and your practice in the case of lawsuit.
Evaluate early signs of clinical deterioration to identify key interventions to initiate.

Speakers

Paul Langlois
Paul Langlois APN, PhD, CCRN, CCNS

Paul Langlois, APN, PhD, CCRN, CCNS, is a critical care clinical specialist in the surgical, medical, neurologic, burn, CCU, and trauma ICUs of Cook County Hospital, Chicago. Drawing on over 40 years of experience assessing and managing patients with life-threatening diseases, Dr. Langlois provides advanced-level training to nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, respiratory therapists, and physicians. Dr. Langlois is committed to providing the highest quality of care to patients through advanced education. His presentations are evidence-based, timely, and provide participants with numerous case studies to facilitate critical thinking. As a bedside clinical nurse specialist, he has developed several institution-wide protocols for the multidisciplinary assessment and management of infectious disease and multi-system organ failure patients. His presentations are enthusiastically delivered and offer highly practical tips that help make the most challenging concepts easy to understand. Linking knowledge to clinical practice is the goal of every educational program.

Cheryl Herrmann
Cheryl Herrmann RN, MS, APRN, CCRN, CCNS-CSC/CMC

Cheryl Herrmann, RN, MS, APRN, CCRN, CCNS-CSC/CMC, has 31 years of nursing experience—15 years as a bedside nurse in SICU, Neuro ICU, and CVICU, and 16 years as a cardiac clinical nurse specialist. As a cardiac CNS, she cares for patients in cardiac prep and recovery, cardiac catheterization, surgery, ICU, telemetry/progressive units, and at discharge. In addition, Ms. Herrmann is a Prehospital RN for the local ambulance service. In 2005, Ms. Herrmann was honored with the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses Circle of Excellence—Excellent Clinical Nurse Specialist Award and the Twenty-Five Women in Leadership Award in central Illinois. She is the recipient of the 2009 University of Illinois Alumni Award.

Cyndi Zarbano
Cyndi Zarbano MSN-ED, CCRN, PCCN

Qualified Professional/Case Management at MRCI WorkSource

I am clinically active as an intensive care nurse at a 16 bed ICU for Mayo. I work with a wide variety of specialties including neuro surgery, ventilator patients, balloon pumps, CRRT, Flotrak, etc.... I have a legal nurse consulting business (see website for both services offered and testimonials). I also develop and deliver seminars during the week for companies nationwide on medical related topics and work with the MN Board of Nursing working with nurses who have gotten Corrective Action or Suspensions. I work with them as a consultant to meet the criteria of their corrective action and get them back to work. I have two pocket guides currently published in 2013 and 2014, both available on Amazon.com. One is on Assessment Skills and the other on Medical Surgical Nursing. Currently a pocket guide on laboratory findings in in the editing stage. I am in the process of negotiating a contract with Springer Publishing Company as well for a manual to prepare for the Medical Surgical Certification test. I also have numerous recorded programs that are available for purchase through PESI Healthcare, Ed4Nurses and Med Ed Seminars. I am a US Naval veteran leaving service as a Lieutenant Commander (LCDR). Specialties: Medical/Surgical, Intensive Care, psychiatric nursing, certified legal nurse consulting, seminar development and delivery. I am certified in ICU, Progressive Care, Med/Surg, as a legal nurse consultant and as a nurse life care planner.

CE Information

This activity offers 20.5 CE credits to attendees.


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