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 Sonosim-designed pre-learning modules and Maverick hands-on proficiency 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 proficiency of the material, they will test their knowledge with instructors. Upon successful completion of course requirements, each student earns a Certificate of Proficiency.
Explore Our Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) with Vascular Access Courses
Pre-Learning
Students must complete the online pre-learning modules before attending the proficiency lab. The modules are an interactive online learning system that allows students to complete course prerequisites at their own pace and preferred location.
Users can access content from any computer, tablet, or any other device with an Internet connection.
Proficiency Lab
In this 1-Day lab, students apply lessons from the online pre-learning modules to experiential training exercises in a clinical environment, developing confidence and proficiency in using the latest ultrasound equipment on live models to perform point-of-care diagnoses. The flipped classroom model ensures our students get the repetitions they need to attain true POCUS proficiency.
Blocks Taught
The following topics are covered as part of our Point-of-Care Ultrasound Course:
- Basic Cardiac & Pulmonary
- eFAST
- Venous Access
- Gastric Content
Not all topics are covered in every course. Check specific course dates for topics offered.
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 (POCUS) 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 program consists of 8 modules that guide you through foundational knowledge necessary for the hands-on lab.
Online modules include:
- 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
