OasisLMS

Speaker: Alica Le Pard, PhD, MBA, ACNP-BC, ENP-C, FNP-BC, GNP-BC, FAANP

Can you practice alone, without backup, only one or two nursing staff present? Deliver a baby? Full trauma? multi-casualty event? Cardiac? DKA? Explore the skill sets needed in rural and frontier healthcare where you are the only provider for a facility and your nearest backup is only a phone or video call away! How can you set up for success as a full practice provider for roles in the emergency department AND hospital to take safe care of all patients? We will discuss the skills, emotions, and systems used in various Mountain West facilities to make such systems a critical part of the health care of rural America.

1. Explore the ancillary training beyond the nurse practitioner and the emergency nurse practitioner level to be prepared for rural healthcare emergency medicine.
2. Identify strategies to maximize the mental fortitude to practice confidently as a independent, full practice rural practitioner
3. Learn art of patient presentation for effective transfers of patients to other facilities, complications of transport and Plan B when they can't leave your facility
4. Develop strategies for accepting the limitations of your environment - practicing with a healthy level of fear, know your nurses and your nursing skill, your facility, your equipment and How to MacGyver

AAENP (ABNP #1571) designates this activity for 1.0 hours.