Orthopedic Nursing: Mobility, Neurovascular Assessment and Recovery

Course Purpose

3 contact hours nursing continuing education course: Orthopedic Nursing: Mobility, Neurovascular Assessment and Recovery.

Continuing Education Credit Designation

This educational activity is credited for 3 contact hours at completion of the activity.

Overview

3 contact hours nursing continuing education course: Orthopedic Nursing: Mobility, Neurovascular Assessment and Recovery.

Objectives

Upon completion of this independent study, the learner will be able to:

1. Define acute compartment syndrome as the retrieved review defines it and state why the review calls it a surgical emergency.
2. State the reported proportion of compartment syndrome cases associated with fractures and name the two fractures most commonly responsible.
3. Describe the earliest objective physical finding of acute compartment syndrome and explain why pain out of proportion matters more than a pulse.
4. Explain, using the retrieved review, why a palpable pulse does not exclude acute compartment syndrome and why serial examination is required.
5. State the retrieved normal compartment pressure, the 30 mmHg figure and what delta pressure means, and state the limits the review places on a single reading.
6. Describe fat embolism syndrome as the retrieved review describes it, including the organs typically involved and the 24-to-72-hour window.
7. State the Gurd and Wilson diagnostic combination and name the three major criteria.
8. State the reported figures for silent deep vein thrombosis and explain what they mean for postoperative assessment.
9. Name the three elements of the Virchow triad and the reported signs and symptoms of lower extremity deep vein thrombosis.
10. Explain what the Wells score bands mean in the retrieved review and why clinical signs alone are described as notoriously inaccurate.
11. State the reported prevalence and cost of pressure injuries and name the Braden subscales and risk bands.
12. Describe the four pressure injury stages and deep tissue injury as the retrieved review describes them, including what stage 1 looks like in darker skin tones.
13. State the reported annual fall rate in people over 65, the proportion causing serious injury and the effect of four risk factors on risk.
14. Name the medication classes the retrieved review associates with falls and state the reported effect of benzodiazepines on night falls and hip fracture.
15. Define osteoporosis as the retrieved review defines it and state the reported lifetime fracture risks for women and men over 50.
16. State the reported outcomes after hip fracture that the osteoporosis review gives for older women and for men.
17. State the triad of osteoarthritis symptoms and explain why radiographic osteoarthritis does not prove the cause of a patient's pain.
18. State what knee arthroplasty is for, its reported survival rates and the complications the retrieved review lists.
19. State the reported incidence of delirium after major elective surgery and after high-risk procedures, and its reported effect on mortality and length of stay.
20. Distinguish hyperactive, hypoactive and mixed delirium and explain why the retrieved review calls hypoactive delirium dangerous.
21. Describe the I-PASS elements and the SBAR structure as the retrieved primer describes them.

Who this course is for:

Advanced Practice Registered Nurses, registered nurses, licensed practical or vocational nurses, and other healthcare providers in any setting who want continuing education on Orthopedic Nursing: Mobility, Neurovascular Assessment and Recovery.

Course outline

12 sections · finish in any order across devices

1. 1

   Course overview and learning objectives

2. 2

   Introduction

3. 3

   What Orthopedic Nursing Watches: Function, the Limb, and the Difference Between Expected Pain and an Emergency

4. 4

   The Neurovascular Assessment and the Emergency It Exists to Catch

5. 5

   After the Long Bone Fracture: Fat Embolism Syndrome and the Systemic Patient

6. 6

   Venous Thromboembolism After Injury and Surgery: The Complication That Hides

7. 7

   The Harms of Lying Still: Pressure Injury, Skin Under Devices, and Risk Assessment

8. 8

   Falls and Fragile Bone: The Cycle That Fills Orthopedic Wards

9. 9

   Joint Disease and Joint Replacement: What the Operation Is For and What Recovery Asks

10. 10

    Confusion, Handover and Team: Making Sure the Finding Reaches Someone

11. 11

    Nursing Considerations

12. 12

    Conclusion

This Course Satisfies

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