Danielle Dunwoody – Navigating Pain Management and Sedation Levels in the Critical Care Environment – PESI

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Speaker: Danielle Dunwoody, PhD, RN
Format: Video
Media Type: Digital Seminar

Description
Balancing analgesia and sedation for critically ill patients is challenging and we still see a discrepancy in the approach to sedation of critically ill patients. How do we avoid negative acute and long-term consequences of untreated pain and agitation? In this session, Dr. Dunwoody will help you understand how provide safe care to when patients are provided analgesia and sedation to prevent pain and anxiety, permit invasive procedures, reduce stress and oxygen consumption, and improve synchrony with mechanical ventilation. Regional preferences, patient assessment and history, unique critical care challenges and individual patient needs will be discussed. A review of how pain and sedation translate to practice will help you provide safe and quality care to your ill patients.

Speaker
Danielle Dunwoody, PhD, RN, is an advanced practice nurse with extensive experience working in the acute care setting; specifically critical care nursing, acute pain management and procedural pain management. She is currently in a leadership role as a Patient Care Manager at Halton Healthcare in Milton, Canada. She is also an adjunct professor at York University in the Graduate Nursing Program with a program of research focused on clinical decision-making around opioids, opioid-induced sedation, and delivering quality pain management.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Danielle Dunwoody has employment relationships with Milton District Hospital and York University. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Danielle Dunwoody is a manuscript reviewer for Nursing Forum. She is a member of the Canadian Pain Society, the Canadian Association of Critical Care Nursing, the American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, and the American Society of Pain Management Nursing.

Objectives

1. Apply the components of pain management within the critical care setting.
2. Analyze Sedation, opioid induced sedation and the overall patient impact.
3. Integrate assessment tools for sedation into patient management.
4. Determine the goal of maximizing analgesia while minimizing sedation.

Outline

Pain Overview

• Definition 
• Neurotransmitters/-Pain Transmission 
• Acute vs. Chronic Pain 
• Components of the Patient’s Pain Experience 

Pain Management

• What Happens if We Don’t Manage Pain? 
• Assessment 
• Considerations 
• Management
  Nonpharmacologic  
  Pharmacologic 

Sedation

• How Pain and Sedation Translate to Practice 
• Sedation as a Concept
  Intentional 
  Incidental 
• Sedation Tools 
• Sedation Risks 
• Sedation Agents 

Nurses Role

• Finding Balance 
• Iterative Knowing 

Target Audience

• Nurses
• Nurse Practitioners
• Physicians Assistants

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