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Exploring the Essential Features of “Robin Gilbert – Get My Drift? Let’s Talk Stroke! Recognition, Diagnosis and Treatment of Stroke – PESI”
Speaker: Robin Gilbert, MSN, RN, CEN, CPEN
Duration: 1 Hour 59 Minutes
Format: Audio and Video
Copyright: Nov 08, 2022
Media Type: Digital Seminar
Description
Stroke remains the second largest cause of death worldwide. In the United States, every 40 seconds, someone will have a stroke. Delayed identification and variability of stroke care have significant impacts on the recovery and survival rate for patients with stroke symptoms. This session will present EBP related to recognition, diagnosis, and treatment to minimize brain injury and maximize the patients’ recovery.
Speaker
Robin Gilbert, MSN, RN, CEN, CPEN
Robin Gilbert, MSN, RN, CEN, CPEN, has over 25 years of experience in emergency nursing. She is both a certified emergency nurse and a certified pediatric emergency nurse. Robin has extensive experience working in the emergency department, progressive care, intermediate care, transitional care, step-down and, currently, as the regional manager for staff development at Central Maine Medical Center. Robin draws on her expertise to teach her own hospital staff and experienced healthcare audiences throughout the country on a variety of critical care and emergency nursing topics.
She has been an item writer for the Board Certification of Emergency Nursing (BCEN), a former Chairperson of BCEN, and most recently a contributing writer for the current CEN Review Manual. Robin is an active member of the Emergency Nurses Association, the American Nurses Association, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Association for Nursing Professional Development, and is a reviewer for the ANCC’s Pathway to Excellence.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Robin Gilbert has employment relationships with EBSCO, Central Maine Medical Center, Rumford Hospital, Pathway to Excellence, and Kaplan University. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Robin Gilbert is a member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation, and the Emergency Nurses Association.
Objectives
- Differentiate between the types of stroke.
- Employ neurologic assessment tools.
- Distinguish between aphasia vs dysarthria.
- Integrate major stroke mimics and clues that differentiate them from acute stroke.
- Formulate initial management priorities: Stroke protocols, medications, endovascular therapy.
Outline
- Types of strokes
- Ischemic
- Large artery atherosclerosis
- Small artery occlusion
- Cardioembolism
- Other causes
- Hemorrhagic
- ICH
- SAH
- Saving the penumbra
- Reversible ischemia
- Neurologic Assessment Tools
- Overview of tools
- NIHSS for the Intubated patient
- Application of stroke screening tools
- Dysarthria vs Aphasia
- Stroke Syndromes & Stroke Mimics
- Syndromes:
- Left vs Right Hemisphere
- Brainstem
- Cerebellar
- Hemorrhagic
- Stroke Mimics:
- Seizures
- Hypoglycemia
- Migraine
- Tumor / Abscess
- Bell’s Palsy
- Head Trauma
- Stroke Management:
- Protocols
- Medications
- Endovascular therapy
- Case presentations
- Is it a stroke syndrome or a mimic? Should you activate RRT-Stroke?
Target Audience
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
- Clinical Nurse Specialists
- Physician Assistants
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