This course teaches CRNAs, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other allied health professionals the crucial skill of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) as an assessment tool. After completing our online didactic modules and Maverick hands-on lab, you’ll be able to make faster and more accurate diagnoses, improve outcomes, and send home happier and healthier patients.
Once students feel confident in their knowledge of the material, they will test their knowledge with instructors. Upon successful completion of course requirements, each student earns a Certificate of Completion.
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Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) assessment is quickly becoming an integral way to make a fast and accurate assessment of patients for clinical decision-making. It is performed at the bedside and has been proven to be accurate and repeatable for serial assessments of unstable patients to help guide in their care. Some have stated that “ultrasound will soon replace the stethoscope.”
This course teaches CRNAs, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, physicians and other allied health professionals the crucial skill of point-of-care ultrasound as an assessment tool.
Using Maverick’s proven learning process developed by experts in education and utilizing the “flipped classroom,” students learn at their own pace and at their convenience. The online didactic modules consists of 8 modules that guide you through foundational knowledge necessary for the hands-on lab.
If you only want to learn using the online modules and not attend the hands-on lab, please see below for the “online-only” option of this course.
Online Modules Topics Covered:
- An Introduction to Ultrasound
- How Ultrasounds produce an image on screen
- POCUS for Gastric Assessment
- POCUS for Peripheral Vascular Access
- POCUS for Internal Jugular access
- Cardiac assessment for normal cardiac function and commonly seen pathological conditions
- Pulmonary assessment for normal function and common problems.
- eFast assessment for trauma and hemodynamically unstable patients
- POCUS for DVT assessment
The online didactic modules have been approved by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) for 32.00 Class A CE credits.
Hands-On Lab Stations:
- Cardiac Assessment
- Gastric Assessment
- Pulmonary Assessment
- eFAST
- Ultrasound Guided Vascular Access
The hands-on lab has been approved by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) for 8 Class A CE credits.
If you cannot attend one of our labs, this online-only course is a great opportunity to learn the skills of our POCUS with Vascular Access course at a reduced cost.
This course teaches participants the crucial skill of point-of-care ultrasound as an assessment tool, and how to utilize Ultrasound Guided Vascular Access.
Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) assessment is quickly becoming an integral way to make a fast and accurate assessment of patients for clinical decision-making. It is performed at the bedside and has been proven to be accurate and repeatable for serial assessments of unstable patients to help guide in their care. Some have stated that “ultrasound will soon replace the stethoscope.”
US Guided Vascular Access skills can be used to initiate IV access for any and all surgical procedures, increases success rate with less needle sticks, decreases the need for central line placement, saves time and money. But most importantly, US Guided Vascular Access increases patient satisfaction by not getting stuck multiple times.
Important to note is that our online-only course does not include a hands-on lab, which is included in our “complete course” listed above.
Online Modules Topics Covered:
- Introduction to ultrasound including a brief history of US development and the physics of how US works to produce an image on the screen.
- POCUS for Gastric Assessment
- POCUS for peripheral vascular access
- POCUS for Internal Jugular access
- Cardiac assessment for normal cardiac function and commonly seen pathological conditions
- Pulmonary assessment for normal function and common problems.
- eFast assessment for trauma and hemodynamically unstable patients
- POCUS for DVT assessment
The online didactic program has been approved by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) for 32 Class A CE credits.
