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AHA ACLS, AHA BLS, AHA NRP, AHA PALS, ICU/ER Track, Labor and Delivery, Neonatal Intensive Care NICU, NRP Skills, Nursing Advocacy, Orange County, San Diego
Klebsiella pneumoniae and Healthcare Acquired Infections
Do you know why Healthcare Acquired Infections are on the rise? One reason is Klebsiella pneumoniae. Actually, Klebsiella pneumoniae CAN be a friendly bacterium, especially to our environment and GI tract; but nurses don’t turn your back! These little capsule wearing, sticky suckers can cause serious havoc to the fragile lungs. To put it briefly, Klebsiella pneumoniae can be an opportunistic bacterium. In fact, it can cause a dangerous form of bacterial pneumonia in children, the elderly and immunocompromised individuals. Contact with feces allows people to serve as reservoirs and transmit the bacteria from person to person. Under those circumstances, these individuals can become severely ill or die from complications.…
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Biomechanics in TNCC
I load my SUV with all sorts of “stuff” to transport “stuff” back and forth from Costa Mesa to San Diego. I hate it when this “stuff” slides around in the back when I accelerate and break. This “stuff” crashes around in the back going from side to side and front to back. That’s what happens in your brain when in a Motor Vehicle Crash. The brain crashes from front to back with accelerated forces and deceleration forces and ultimately causes brain damage. In a motor vehicle crash you can be thrust over the dash board or pushed down and under the dashboard with accelerated forces. Over the dash can…
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Trauma Assessment to the 4th Power
For the Nurse in ER and ICU Contact Hours: 20 Price: $38
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Rapid Responder to the 4th Power
For the Nurse in ER and ICU Contact Hours: 20 Price: $38
