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Advanced Burn Life Support (ABLS)
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: June 5, 2009, approximately 8:00 am to 4:00 pm
Location: Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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 may be required to attend a funded week long clinical training at a burn center on an annual basis. Other healthcare providers are encouraged to apply and will be admitted on a space available basis.
Pre-requisites: Nurses providing written supervisory approval for annual training receive priority placement into class.
Course Description: The ABLS 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 provider 13567 under established AACN Certification Corporation guidelines for 8 contact hours, CERP Category A.
Register: To sign up for this course:
1. Print and sign the bottom of the notification form and include supervisory approval. Notification Form(Word, 34KB)
3. Complete the ABLS registration form A (PDF, 64KB) attached. (Registration fee paid by DHHS).
3. Complete the HHS form B (Word, 23KB)
4. Return ALL forms (including the ABLS registration form) to POC below.
POC:
CDR Cheryl Ann Borden, MSN, RN, CCRN, CCNS
Email: Cherylann.borden@hhs.gov
Fax: 202 260 5520
Office: 202 401 5834
revised 31 March 2009 |
