How do I register?
Time is Muscle: Responding to Chest Pain Program is presented by Continuum Services.
Continuum Services, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital is approved as a provider of continuing nursing education by the New York State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Time is Muscle: Responding to Chest Pain program is assigned approval code 6P2LJZ-PRV-066 and has been awarded 2.0 contact hours.
System Requirements: Speakers or headphones are required.
Contact Hours: 2
Course Description:
Knowing that “time is muscle” will prepare you to manage effectively and expediently the patient with chest pain.
Outlining the steps for providing care, which include assessment, problem identification, planning, intervention and evaluation, will give you the confidence to manage the chest pain patient quickly and appropriately.
In this course you will address the following:
- angina
- causes, symptoms , diagnoses and therapies for AMI
- EKG changes for ischemia and injury
- thrombolytic contraindications
- cardiac enzymes
- cause of chest pain other than AM
You can print out your certificate at the end of the program or contact us and we can email it or mail it to you. You must have Adobe Acobat 6 or Flash 7 Player downloaded onto your computer in order to print the certificates. They are available free for download from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html