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Advanced Burn Life Support for Nurses
Course Title: Advanced Burn Life Support (ABLS)
Registration Materials:
Advance approval is required for this course. Please read the instructions and submit the required forms ASAP.
ABLS Registration Form (must be completed in advance)
HHS ABLS Form (must be completed in advance)
Course Sponsor: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Preparedness and Response (OPEO) in partnership with the American Burn Association (ABA)
Date: Thursday, June 12, 2008. This course is being offered as an alternative to the Symposium agenda on this day. However, the course will conclude in time for participants to hear the Closing Keynote by RADM Galson. Participants in this course must be registered for the Symposium.
Location: Tucson Convention Center
Course Number: TBD
Target Audience: This course is offered to and targeted at PHS nurses in an effort to recruit and maintain a cadre of burn trained nurses. Nurses selected will be required to attend a funded week long clinical training at a burn center on an annual basis.
Pre-requisites: Written supervisory approval for annual training.
Course Description:
The Advanced Burn Life Support Provider Course is an eight-hour course for physicians, nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, therapists, and paramedics. The course provides guidelines in the assessment and management of the burn patient during the first 24 hours post injury. Following a series of lectures, case studies are presented for group discussions. You will be given the opportunity to work with a simulated burn patient to reinforce the assessment, stabilization, and the American Burn Association transfer criteria to a Burn Center. Final testing consists of a written exam and a practical assessment. The registration fee covers the tuition, manual, study guide, test, and continuing education credits.
Learning Objectives:
The participants will:
1. Define the magnitude and severity of an injury.
2. Identify and establish priorities of treatment.
3. Apply correct methods of physiological monitoring.
4. Determine the appropriate guidelines for transfer of a patient, including factors of time, facility and method of transport.
5. Provide primary treatment of the burn area, associated injuries and common complications within the first 24 hours post-burn.
Contact Hours:
This program 070603OH has been approved by an AACN Certification Corporation–approved provider13567 under established AACN Certification Corporation guidelines for 8 contact hours, CERP Category A.