Seminar Day!
May 29, 2009Yesterday, May 28, my co-staff nurses and I attended a seminar entitled, “The ABCD of Adult and Pediatric Resuscitation: Our Response to Save Lives”. It had been a very fruitful seminar, I was reviewed and updated on Basic Life Support. Though I haven’t attended an ACLS course yet, it sort of gave us some ideas and background of how to efficiently carry out our roles, functions and responsibilities as members of the code team. Though in my experience, I have attended several code situations already, I could say that the seminar still shed some light and gave me some insights specifically on the ideal practice/nursing interventions and areas of improvement that must be done when attending life-threatening situations. Also, most of the time we deal with adult patients in our area, we tend to forget the must-know of pediatric resuscitation. The seminar indeed became very helpful to us for that matter.
The said seminar was graced by 2 known consultants in PGH, Dr. Jubert Benedicto, head of CENICU and Dr. Herbie Uy, head of PICU, who talked about Advanced Cardiac Life Support and Pediatric Advanced Life Support, respectively.The latter part of the seminar was a talk delivered by a UPCN alumna, class valedicatorian of Batch 2004, Ms. Vicky Serdan, who discussed about the Nursing Responsibilities in Pedicatric BLS/ACLS.
I hope to be updated again on topics like this, a year or two from now. In the meantime, my next objective is to update my IV therapy license.
