ESSENTIALS OF IDENTIFYING AND TREATING SEPSIS

The Essentials of Identifying and Treating Sepsis is the first in a series of three webinars identified by nurses at two organizations in northern Maine in a needs assessment conducted by ANA Maine. In a first of its kind partnership model, together ANA Maine and the Lunder-Dineen Health Education Alliance of Maine are collaborating to develop and provide these webinars to nurses at these organizations as part of a pilot. Following participation in these modules, nurses will be asked for feedback that will inform the future dissemination of these educational products.

Hospital based Nurses in Maine treat incidents of sepsis in their patients as a complication resulting from a primary diagnosis. It is essential that nurses are able to differentiate among the various types of sepsis and the interventions to treat sepsis effectively and safely. This webinar will address the following learning objectives: The pathophysiology of sepsis, severe sepsis and Systematic Inflammatory Response (SIRS), as well as the symptoms and treatment of these conditions will be presented. The Nurse will also learn to integrate the Nursing Management principles of preventing sepsis.

1.0 nursing contact hour will be awarded to eligible participants. 

Target Audience

Nurses at Northern Maine Medical Center (NMMC) in Ft. Kent and at NLH AR Gould in Presque Isle, Maine.

Learning Objectives

1.  Differentiate between Sepsis, Severe Sepsis, Septic Shock, SIRS

2.  Identify the Symptoms of Sepsis

3.  Describe the Treatment of Sepsis

4.  Define Symptoms of Sepsis, Severe Sepsis, Septic Shock and Systemic Inflammatory Response (SIRS)

5.  Recognizing Symptoms of Sepsis and Severe Sepsis in Patients

6.  Define Early Management of Sepsis

7.  Describe the Nursing Management of Preventing Sepsis in Patients

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Lunder-Dineen and ANA-Maine

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 Nursing Contact Hours
  • 0.00 Participation
Course opens: 
03/15/2021
Course expires: 
05/10/2023
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Anne Dean HeadshotAnne V. Dean, MD, MPHS, FSHM

Internal Medicine-Hospitalist, Maine Medical Center, Portland, Maine

Anne is the Assistant Associate Medical Director of Hospital Medicine and practicing Hospitalist at Maine Medical Center. She has clinical interests in a variety of areas, she is a member of the Neurology Work Group Comprehensive Stroke Center Certification, at Maine Medical Center, Hospitalist Liason to the Emergency Department at Barnes Jewish Hospitalist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. and a member of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee at the same University. Anne enjoys the interaction with her patients and students.

She has been a physician since 1995 and completed her Internal Medicine Residency in 1998. Anne is also an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts University in MA. And has taught at many other Colleges of Medicine throughout her career. She continues to be an Attending Physician at Barnes Jewish West County Hospital in MO.

Anne is a Member of the Society of Hospitalist Medicine Fellow, Member of the American College of Physicians, and Member of Physicians for Social Responsibility.

She graduated from MD, Stritch School of Medicine-Loyola University, Chicago and completed her Residency at Loyola Medical Center. Recently she earned her MPHS, Master of Population Health Sciences from Washington University School of Medicine.

Headshot of Amy StaffordAmy Stafford, MN, APRN, CCNS

Clinical Nurse Specialist, Critical Care, Maine Medical Center, Portland, Maine

Amy is a Clinical Nurse Specialist at Maine Medical Center. Amy’s clinical interests include sepsis, advanced hemodynamics, ARDS/lung protective ventilation/prone positioning, massive transfusion, post ICU Syndrome, and improving outcomes for in hospital cardiac arrest. Amy has been a critical care nurse since 1996 and practiced in a variety of settings. She spent the greater part of her career at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle as both bedside nurse and Assistant Manager in the Trauma/Surgical ICU.

Since coming to Maine Medical Center in 2015, she worked as a Nursing Staff Development Specialist and Manager of Nursing Academic Affairs, and currently as the CNS for Critical Care.

Amy is a member of SCCM and AACN as well as President of the local Southern Maine Chapter. She thoroughly enjoys teaching, both in the classroom setting as well as the bedside. She received her BSN from St. Joseph’s College in Maine and her master’s in nursing from the University of Washington in Seattle.

This nursing continuing professional development activity was approved by Connecticut Nurses’ Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.  

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  • 1.00 Nursing Contact Hours
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