A Systematic Approach to Assessing Chest Pain

This presentation will briefly review the physiology of chest pain and differentiate between the different types of chest pain with emphasis on life threatening symptoms.  The elements of cardiac assessment including the importance of a comprehensive subjective assessment and focused physical assessment will be described in detail.  This presentation will further discuss appropriate nursing interventions for patients presenting with complaints of chest pain as well as the pitfalls that can lead to missed diagnoses and clinical judgment errors including incomplete assessment, errors in clinical reasoning, poor documentation, scope of practice issues and failure to rescue.

1. Describe physiology of chest pain.
2. Identify persons at increased risk for cardiac events.
3. Identify pertinent history for chest pain.
4. Identify physical assessment components for chest pain.
5. Increase awareness of pitfalls in assessments.

The American Correctional Nurses Association is an approved provider of continuing education for nurses by the Florida Board of Nursing, Provider #50-31772. This certificate must be retained for at least 4 years - do not forward to the Board of Nursing unless requested to do so.

This webinar awards 1 contact hour of continuing education for nurses.

Criteria for successful completion of this webinar includes:
               Attendance at the entire presentation
               Completion of the post-test, and the presentation evaluation.

The American Correctional Nurses Association is an approved provider of continuing education for nurses by the Florida Board of Nursing, Provider #50-31772.

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