Course Code: EL-UPA-CH-VAN
Credit/Contact Hours: 2
Type: Online Course
Content Expiration Date: 05/31/2014
Learning Objectives:
Identify three diseases or conditions in the pediatric population when antibiotic therapy is the prescribed treatment.
Explain the principles involved in empirical antibiotic selection and treatment.
Describe the standard workup and antibiotic treatment options for acute otitis media, pneumonia, sinusitis, meningitis/encephalitis, skin abscess, common animal bites, and fever (in neonates).
Staff Writer: Ellen Carr, RN, MSN, AOCN
Ellen Carr, RN, MSN, AOCN, has been an oncology nurse for more than 25 years, currently specializing in the care of patients with head and neck cancer. She is a graduate of the University of Colorado, earning a bachelors of science in journalism. She completed her graduate work in oncology nursing at the MGH Institute of Health Professions in Boston. She is a certified advanced oncology nurse.
Since 2002, she has been an oncology nurse case manager at the Moores UCSD (University of California, San Diego) Cancer Center. Over the years, her practice has included patients with head and neck cancer, breast cancer and hematological malignancies. She has been an active and contributing member of the national Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) and its local chapter, serving in leadership and communication roles. Over the past 25 years, Ellen has continued to write about health care issues, with a focus on clinical nursing, therapeutic and diagnostic technologies and patient advocacy. She has authored text book chapters and peer-reviewed articles about cancer care, as well as a comprehensive oncology nursing course for SC Publishing/Western Schools, currently being updated for its 3rd revision. In 2007, she was honored as the Trish Greene Quality of Life lecturer at the ONS Institutes of Learning.
Expert Reviewer: Trent Rosenbloom MD, MPH
Dr. Rosenbloom is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Medicine, Pediatrics and Nursing at Vanderbilt University. He is a board certified Internist and Pediatrician who earned his MD, completed a residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, a fellowship in Biomedical Informatics, and earned an MPH all at Vanderbilt. Dr. Rosenbloom is currently the Medical Director for the University Community Health Services and is on faculty at Vanderbilt University's Schools of Medicine and Nursing. Since joining the Vanderbilt faculty in 2002, Dr. Rosenbloom has become a nationally recognized investigator in the field of health information technology evaluation. His work has focused the evaluating clinical decision support implementations, documentation systems, pediatric informatics and patient portals. His work has been supported through extramural funding from the National Library of Medicine, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and through subcontracts from the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Veterans' Affairs and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Rosenbloom’s work has resulted in lead and collaborating authorship on 49 peer reviewed manuscripts, 6 book chapters and numerous posters, white papers and invited papers. He has been a committed member of the principal professional organization in his field, the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), was the annual recipient of the competitive AMIA New Investigator Award in 2009, and was elected to the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) in 2011.
Course Topics:
Medication, Physical Health – General, Physical Health Conditions, Physical Health Interventions
Learner Types:
Physical Healthcare Assistants, Physical Healthcare Professionals
Service Populations:
Age Group - Adolescent, Age Group - Child, People With Physical Health Conditions
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