Recognize, Respond and Rescue

Dates:

• May 30, 2024
• July 24, 2024
• September 4, 2024
• November 21, 2024
• December 13, 2024

Times:

• 8 a.m. to Noon
• 1 to 5 p.m.

Location: Davis I Building, Suite 1200
Code: DAHS-NADRRR19-SIM-ANCC
Capacity: 6
Waiting list: Yes

This class is designed to assist acute care nurses in developing the confidence, technical skills and critical thinking skills in recognizing, responding and rescuing the unstable patient. This course will provide you with the knowledge, skills and application to practice tools and resources in a blended/interactive environment.  In addition, this course will provide the acute care nurse the necessary skills needed to manage code blue situations prior to the arrival of the code blue team.

1. Review the following policies (60 minutes). Identify at least 3 learning points from your reading and be prepared to answer question in pre-assessment survey.
   • Rapid Response Team (Policy 6013)
   • Patient Care Services Structure Standards: Escalation Process/Chain of Command, page 14
   • Airway Management for Adults (Policy 17003)
   • Oxygen Administration (Policy 6018)
   • Automated External Defibrillator (AED) - Zoll R-Series Plus (Healthcare Providers) (Policy 6005)
   • Responding to Medical Emergency Situations (Including Code Blue) (Policy 6006)
   • Nursing Intervention in the Event of Certain Medical Emergencies in Adult Patients (Main Hospital)
   • Nursing Intervention in the Event of Certain Medical Emergencies in Adult Patients (Ambulatory Clinics)
2. Complete the following evaluation before class, after class and 3 months after attending class:
   • Recognize, Respond and Rescue (R3) Assessment and Evaluation
3. Complete the following modules:
   • Recognize, Respond and Rescue* (audio required)
   • Code Blue Skills and Management for Acute Care Nurses*
4. Reflect and be prepared to discuss the following in class:
   • Recent code blue experience
     • Describe a recent code blue experience; How did you manage the situation? What was your experience like? What did you take away from the experience? What would you change? What would you keep doing?
   • Recent experience caring for an unstable patient
     • Describe a recent experience caring for an unstable patient? How did you manage the situation? What was your experience like? What did you take away from the experience? What would you change? What would you keep doing?

*Modules are to be completed no more than 30 days prior to class. Participants must bring verification of their completed modules. Participants may bring their UC Learning Center training transcript as proof or show their training transcript using the SumTotal Mobile app.

Please dress in hospital scrubs or clinical work attire as participants will work hands-on with a human patient simulator.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider number CEP 26, for 6.75 contact hours.

The UC Davis Health Center for Professional Practice of Nursing is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Attendees will not receive C.E. credit if they are more than 5 minutes late; no partial credit can be awarded.

UC Davis Health employees

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$25 registration deposit. Registration deposit is returned upon completion of class. Cancellation must be requested five days prior to class date to receive deposit refund. Please register through UC Learning Center and call our office at 916-734-9790 with your deposit by credit card.

Registrations are approved only after your deposit is provided.

Community registrants

This class is only open to UC Davis Health employees.

Individuals needing special accommodations may call the Center for Professional Practice of Nursing at 916-734-9790.

Parking is available in parking structure 4, lots 12, 17, 18, Broadway or EDD with either a B permit or daily permit. Daily permits are available for purchase with the ParkMobile app using zone number 42201. Please visit Parking and Transportation Services for more information.

Monica Aguilar, M.S.N., R.N., N.P.D.-B.C.
Professional Development Specialist

Denise Angelo Prudencio, D.N.P., R.N., P.C.C.N., N.E.A.-B.C.
Professional Development Specialist