Course Description
Stroke education for nurses and other healthcare professionals. This stroke training course includes the NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) assessment, stroke symptoms, types of stroke, pathophysiology, diagnosis, prehospital and ED evaluation, treatment options. The course provides an emphasis on acute care and initial rehabilitation for patients who have experienced a stroke.
Learning Outcome and Objectives
| 1) Review stroke epidemiology. |
| 2) Identify risk factors, triggers, and effects of stroke. |
| 3) Discuss major classifications, including pathophysiology and clinical presentation. |
| 4) Describe the components of prehospital and emergency department evaluation and management. |
| 5) Discuss the guidelines for early treatment and management of patients with acute stroke. |
| 6) Identify the complications and associated interventions that may occur during the intensive care unit (ICU) care of acute stroke patients. |
| 7) Summarize hospital nursing management for stroke patients beyond 24 hours. |
| 8) Identify assessment, interventions, and goals of physical, occupational, and speech-language stroke rehabilitation in the acute setting. |
| 9) List actions to be taken in the prevention of secondary stroke. |
Course Professions
| Nursing |
| Paramedic/EMT |
| Occupational Therapy |
| Physical Therapy |
| Case Management |
Course Summaries
Nursing:
Stroke CEU for nurses and other healthcare providers. Stroke prevention, signs and symptoms. Different types of stroke, NIHSS stroke scale, prehospital/ED evaluation, nursing care, treatment, management, and initial rehabilitation goals. |
Case Management:
Stroke CEU for nurses and other healthcare providers. Stroke prevention, signs and symptoms. Different types of stroke, NIHSS stroke scale, prehospital/ED evaluation, nursing care, treatment, management, and initial rehabilitation goals. |
Paramedic/EMT:
Stroke CEU for nurses and other healthcare providers. Stroke prevention, signs and symptoms. Different types of stroke, NIHSS stroke scale, prehospital/ED evaluation, nursing care, treatment, management, and initial rehabilitation goals. |
Occupational Therapy:
Stroke CEU for nurses and other healthcare providers. Stroke prevention, signs and symptoms. Different types of stroke, NIHSS stroke scale, prehospital/ED evaluation, nursing care, treatment, management, and initial rehabilitation goals. |
Physical Therapy:
Stroke CEU for nurses and other healthcare providers. Stroke prevention, signs and symptoms. Different types of stroke, NIHSS stroke scale, prehospital/ED evaluation, nursing care, treatment, management, and initial rehabilitation goals. |
Special Accreditation
N/A
Course Statements - Nursing
| Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. |
| Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #12300. |
| Nurse practitioners may apply these contact hours to pharmacy continuing education and prescriptive authorization. |
Course Statements - Paramedic/EMT
Wild Iris Medical Education is an approved provider for paramedic and EMT continuing education in California by the Coastal Valleys EMS Agency: CE Provider #49-0057.
Course Statements - Physical Therapy
| Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is a Continuing Competency Approval Agency recognized by the Physical Therapy Board of California. |
| Approval of physical therapy continuing education credit varies by state. Confirm approval with your state's licensing agency before you take the course for CE credit. See Physical Therapy CE Approval for more information. |
Course Notes - All_Professions
LIMITED TIME OFFER: $10 off! Pass this course and register for your certificate by Jul 31, 2023, to get this course for $39 instead of the regular price of $49.
Course Notes - Physical Therapy
FLORIDA PT: This course is not approved for PTs/PTAs in Florida.
Nursing
Judith Swan
MSN, BSN, ADN
Judith Swan has been in the healthcare field for over fifty years, beginning as a medic in the U.S. Air Force. As an RN, she has worked in mental health, emergency, orthopedics, hospice, and medical/surgical. She holds an MSN as a family nurse practitioner. Judith's experience in nursing education includes teaching psychiatric, long-term, and dementia nursing care and as director of a nursing assistant college program. She has written ancillary educational materials for nursing textbooks, curricula for nursing assistant programs, online health articles, and continuing education
courses since 2012.
Michael Jay Katz
MD, PhD
Michael Jay Katz earned his PhD and MD from Case Western Reserve University. He taught anatomy, physical diagnosis, and scientific writing in the medical school there for more than twenty-five years. He has written more than a dozen books and nearly 100 papers and essays. He has also served as an anatomy and physiology consultant for Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary.
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