Critical Care Shared Governance Conference 2025

Friday, April 18, 2025, 7:30 AM - 2:00 PM, 1279 Highway 54 West, Conference Room C, Fayetteville, Georgia 30214, Fayetteville, GA


ANCC Contact Hour(s) (5.00 hours), General Attendance (5.00 hours)

Spring into The Rhythm and Beat! Join us for conference developed for our Critical Care team that addresses how to nurture our patients by gaining knowledge of recognizing early sepsis; providing tracheostomy & chest tube management; knowing common thoracic condition/surgeries and post-operative complications; and skin integrity prevention. In addition, how to prepare patient's families for worst or best case situations.

1. Nurse will identify the key elements of timely sepsis care
2. Nurse will understand and utilize the Sepsis Promise Package, Sepsis Narrator and Sepsis Tracker
3. Nurse will solve and troubleshoot tracheostomy problems.
4. Nurse will solve and troubleshoot problems with chest tube management.
5. Nurse will identify palliative care patient and family needs.
6. Nurse will apply strategies to address the difficult subject of supportive medicine early in the patient stay.
7. Nurse will identify the proper wound care prevention tools needed to manage an individual patients need.
8. Nurse will understand the general principles of cardiogenic shock.
9. Nurse will understand basic hemodynamics of the cardio patient.
10. Nurse will identify cardiogenic shock patients who require escalation of care.
11. Nurse will understand tools to use in identifying and evaluating the needs of cardiogenic shock patients.
12. Nurse will identify most common thoracic surgery and immediate post-operative complications.

Registration is $5

In support of improving patient care, Piedmont Healthcare is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

In addition to AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^TM for physicians, ANCC credit for nurses, and ACPE credit for pharmacists, Piedmont Healthcare also offers AAPA Category 1 Credit for PAs, APA credit for psychologists, ASWB ACE credit for social work, BOC credit for athletic trainers, CPEU CDR credit for dietitians, and IPCE credit. 

Cancellation Policy

Piedmont Healthcare reserves the right to cancel or postpone this program if necessary; in the event of cancellation, course fees will be fully refunded. We are not responsible for other costs incurred such as non-refundable airline tickets or hotel penalties.

Accessibility Statement
 
Piedmont Healthcare is committed to ensuring that its programs, services, goods and facilities are accessible to individuals with disabilities as specified under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act of 2008.  If you have needs that require special accommodations, including dietary concerns, please contact Continuing Education at [email protected].

The registration form for this activity is currently unavailable.

Piedmont Healthcare adheres to ACCME Criteria, Standards and Policies regarding industry support of continuing medical education. Disclosure of faculty and their commercial relationships will be made prior to the activity.

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Piedmont Healthcare adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

Grant or in-kind support from ineligible companies was not received for this activity,