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Pediatric Essentials: Rashes, Infections, and Assessment

Program Information

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Pediatric Essentials: Rashes, Infections, Assessment

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Can you formulate an accurate diagnosis when assessing a child with a rash or an infection?
Do you want to enhance your rash and infection physical assessment skills?
Can you accurately categorize skin lesions?
Are you comfortable knowing when to isolate a child with a rash/infection?

Description:

We will discuss a child with an uncomplicated rash and/or an infection;
we will explore the types of rashes and various infections while building a working diagnosis.
Challenging concepts of rashes will be simplified.
Assessment tips will be explained.
Case studies will also be explored!

More Course Information

Audience: School Nurses, EMTs/Paramedics, Student Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Physicians’ Assistants, Day Care Center Providers, Patient Care Technicians, and many more…

Contact Hours: 4 Nursing Contact Hours are awarded.

*Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (Provider #CEP17561) and Florida Board of Nursing (Provider #50-24286) for 4 Contact Hours.

Learning Outcomes:

•   Categorize lesions
•   Build a differential and working diagnosis of a child presenting with a rash
•   Recognize and manage a child with an infection
•   Decide which infections need to be isolated and more...

Content/Agenda/Outline (times are approximated; order of presentation may change)

Topic/Content/Discussion

Rashes, Infections, & Assessment

Welcome, Disclaimer, Contact Hours, Agenda/Overview
Skin Review
Lesions
Rash progression and differentiation
Common conditions
Contagious conditions
When to Isolate
Coinciding illness
Assessment Pattern
Illness with Rashes
Rashes without illness

Evaluations (a link will be emailed after the course). After completing the course and the course evaluation, the contact hours certificate will be available online.

Speaker Bio

Faculty/Speaker:

Lee Taylor-Vaughan, JD, MSN, RN, ACNP, CCRN-CSC-CMC, PCCN, CEN, TCRN, NREMT-P, LNC, CFRN is a native of Yorkshire England, who began his healthcare career--over 20 years ago--in the ER & ICU. During this time, he has completed programs for EMT, Paramedic, a BS, an MS in Nursing from Rutgers University, and a Doctorate in Law from Concord Law School.

Since 1997 he has provided continuing education for nurses, physicians, and a variety of medical professionals. He has also co-authored the CEN® & the CCRN® Examination review books with Laura Gasparis Vonfrolio RN Ph.D. Lee travels the USA, providing many types of examination review courses, including the CCRN review course with Laura Gasparis Vonfrolio RN Ph.D.

Lee’s career primarily focuses on Emergency and Critical Care. He is currently practicing as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner in a Cardiothoracic Surgery Intensive Care Unit in the NYC Metro area.

You will find that Lee is an enthusiastic, easy-to-follow, down-to-earth, and energetic lecturer; he holds national and international speaking engagements covering many topics.

Disclaimers

Required Contact Hours Disclaimers:

Nursing Continuing Education is accepted in ALL states (AL AK AZ AR CA CO CT DE FL GA HI ID IL IN KS KY LA ME MD MA MI MN MS MO MT NE NV NH NJ NM NY NC ND OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TN TX UT VT VA WA WV WI WY), except for IA.
The planning committee, presenters, faculty, authors, and content reviewers have no conflict of interest to disclose.
Speakers must provide a balanced and unbiased presentation; the presentation has been reviewed, and any bias, if found, has been eliminated.
There is no commercial support, joint providership, or sponsorship for this program.
The Health Care Training Academy (D/B/A CardiacEd) is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the New Jersey State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. #P295
Approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # CEP17561
Approved via CE Broker for FL, GA, SC, NC, AK # 50-24286
Accreditation status does not imply endorsement by The Health Care Training Academy (D/B/A CardiacEd), NJSNA, or ANCC Commission on Accreditation of any commercial products displayed (if any) in conjunction with this program.
Non-nursing professionals should consult with their respective boards to ensure nursing credit is acceptable for your credential renewal requirements. If you are not a nurse and take this educational credit program, please verify your board's acceptance before registering for this event, as refunds will not be issued.
All registrations are final. Once purchased, there are no refunds, credits, extensions, or transfers. Please verify you can attend the program before registering with enough time to complete it.
Criteria to complete this program: The entire session must be attended to receive nursing continuing education credit.
ANCC does not permit us to issue contact hours for BLS provider courses, except for BLS Instructor course(s).

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