Description
This eLearning activity will educate providers on the updated protocols and policies for practicing moderate sedation. This program is required of all individuals who plan to provide moderate sedation.
Instructions
- Review and watch the following seven videos. Videos can be viewed on any platform (PC, tablet, phone).
- After you have watched the videos, please take the post test.
- Print out the certificate of completion.
- Send the certificate along with your name via the Medical Staff Office(s) to which you are applying for privileges.
Overview, Qualifications, Learning Objectives
Overview
The Joint Commission has defined specific standards for the administration of moderate sedation, analgesia and anesthesia (PC.13.20). The standards state that “individuals who administer moderate sedation and analgesia have the appropriate credentials and are qualified to manage patients at whatever level of sedation or anesthesia is achieved, either intentionally or unintentionally.”
In accordance with these standards, the HHC Anesthesiology Council and HHC Medical Staff Committees have approved the following qualifications for Physicians (MD,DO,DDS), Physician Assistants (PA), Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRN), and Registered Nurses (RN) who are providing moderate procedural sedation.
Qualifications of Practitioners Administering Moderate Sedation/Analgesia for Procedures
- In order for practitioners to administer moderate procedural sedation/analgesia, the practitioner must have current privileges and demonstrate competency through successful completion of the HHC Professional Education course reviewing pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, indications, contraindications, doses, complications, and treatment of adverse reactions of drugs used for procedural sedation/analgesia.
- Licensed Practitioner's who order, administer, or monitor moderate sedation/analgesia must have current practice appropriate ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support), ATLS (Adult Trauma Life Support), PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support), or NRP (Neonatal Resuscitation Program} certification, prior to performing moderate sedation.
- Along with current ACLS certification, a minimum of 20 Moderate Sedation procedures over a two-year period is the threshold criteria for maintaining active privileges.
- EXEMPTIONS: By their professional training, Anesthesia Providers, Emergency Physicians, Oral-Maxillo-Facial Physicians, and Critical Care Physicians are competent and certified to administer procedural sedation throughout all levels of the continuum.
Learning Objectives
As a result of participating in this internet activity, the participant should be able to:
- Create a patient care plan using best practice guidelines for moderate procedural sedation and analgesia
- Implement a patient care plan using best practice guidelines for moderate procedural sedation and analgesia
- Discuss the continuum of sedation
- Review the goals and limits of moderate sedation
- Prepare the patient for sedation, including education, consent, and determination of level of difficulty
- Appropriately utilize medications in moderate sedations
- React as appropriate to patient data from monitors
- Resuscitate a moderately-sedated patient as needed
Moderate Sedation Videos
Click here after viewing the above videos
Moderate Sedation Post Test & Certificate of Completion
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