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Sedation Certification is a division of Healthy Visions, a nurse continuing education provider.  Healthy Visions offers Moderate Sedation Certification training to enhance patient safety through safe sedation practices.  Sedation is being performed more and more by plastic surgeons, ER Physicians, orthopedic surgeons, podiatrists, ophthalmologists, radiologists and dentists. Healthy Visions mission is to train RNs, PAs, MDs and other appropriate personnel in the safe sedation practices.

Safety
Through Education and Communication

Nursing Service personnel are involved with managing the nursing care of patients receiving sedation or analgesic medications while undergoing invasive diagnostic or therapeutic procedures.  Medication administration, patient monitoring, discharge instructions, family teaching and patient safety concerns are all nursing care critical elements of patients undergoing conscience sedation.

Sedation is also referred to as I.V. Sedation, Conscious Sedation, Moderate Sedation, Safe Sedation, Procedural Sedation, Deep Sedation, Computer Assisted Personalized Sedation (CAPS) and Nurse Administered Propofol (NAPs).

Places where nurses may administer sedation to patients is in the Emergency Room, Trauma Center, Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU), Operating Room, Surgery Center, Special Procedures, Gastroenterology, Endoscopy, Radiology, Ophthalmology, and Critical Care Unit.

The most common medications used in sedation are Versed, Fentanyl, Morphine and Demerol.  Propofol and Ketamine are commonly used for sedation and deep sedation by Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists and Anesthesiologists.  Both Propofol and Ketamine are controversial drugs when considered for use by non-anesthesia trained RNs.

Keeping up with continuing education credits can make your sedation practice safe from costly or even deadly mistakes. All those involved in the sedation of patients should practice safe sedation.

Continuing education credits and shopping cart provided by Healthy Visions.

Healthy Visions is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Alabama State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation (ANCC).  

Approved for 8 CE Credits 6 Pharmacology Code # 5-133

Course Director

Michael R. "Ron" Eslinger
RN, CRNA, APN, MA

President, American Association of Moderate Sedation Nurses (AAMSN)

Ron Eslinger, Captain USN Nurse Corps Retired.  His positions included Chief CRNA and Assistant Department Head. He was Assistant Officer and Chief Nurse on the Navy Hospital Ship USNS Mercy. He also served as Officer-in-Charge Branch Medical Clinic, Parris Island, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Director of Patient Services and Senior Executive Nurse Beaufort Navy Hospital.

  He was instrumental in the development of the IV Conscious Sedation Certification Training for five Navy Hospitals.  He is currently owner of Healthy Visions Wellness Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

• Sedation Certification
• 8 Nursing continuing education credits
• Review of Policy, standards and legal implications
• Review JCAHO, AANA and ASA policy for patient sedation

WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS COURSE

Nurses Working In:
- ER
- PACU
- Operating Room
- Special Procedures
- Endoscopy
- Radiology
- Ophthalmology

THE LEARNER WILL BE ABLE TO:

• Discuss the differences between minimal sedation, moderate sedation, deep sedation, and general anesthesia.
• State 4 objectives/goals of sedation.
• Identify your institution’s policy regarding care of the patient undergoing sedation.
• Demonstrate care for the patient during pre-procedure, intra-procedure, and post-procedure phases of sedation.
• List the drugs, routes, and dosages for the drugs commonly used in moderate sedation.
• Discuss antidotes (dosage, side effects, and indications) for commonly used drugs with sedation.
• Describe signs and symptoms of partial and complete airway obstruction.
• Demonstrate interventions to correct partial and complete airway obstruction.
• Identify side effects and contraindications to medications that have the potential to suppress a patient’s protective reflexes and respirations.
• Discuss the significance of utilizing the ASA classification during pre/post procedural pediatric and adult assessment.
• Integrate age-specific principles into care of the pediatric and geriatric patient undergoing moderate sedation.
• Document clearly, completely, and according to established standards, policies and instructions.
• Administer moderate sedation safely.
• Effectively manage complications which might arise during moderate sedation.