The Importance of Continuing Education in Progressive Care Patients

The Importance of Continuing Education in Progressive Care Patients
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The importance of Continuing Education in Progressive Care Patients
Introduction
The Progressive Care Unit patients need an improved or high level of monitoring and nursing care, which is cost-effective, safe and emphatic on quality delivery. This journal outlines the significance of continuing education in the progressive care education about conditions such from which the patients admitted in these units could be recovering. The importance of Conditions such as AFib, Ventricular Tachycardia is explored, as well as the early signs of Infiltration of an IV. Given the essence of PCU in facilitating efficiency at the intensive care and surgical units, the continuing education is critical in meeting competency criteria. This is to prevent sudden cardiac deaths due to ventricular arrhythmias such as ventricular fibrillation and tract Tachycardia.
Objectives
The primary underpinnings of nursing care in progressive Units are to ensure condition-appropriate attention without subjection to futile treatments. For example, the unnecessary and unprofessional administering of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in situations of AFIB eventualities is one role that nursing care ensures it is working. This is achieved through a primary clinical assessment to the patient’s conditions, before the patient is admitted to the realistic phase, based on projected outcome treatment. The patients, therefore, in their illness trajectory can be transferred from curative to restorative, palliative and if need be to the terminal phase.

For example, by experience and proper Progressive Care education, the nurses would distinguish patients in need of direct current cardioversion care and rhythm control (pharmacologic rate). One other important goal implication in progressive care is to observe the patient’s or substitute’s consent in every step of care the professional considers to administer. The goal is enforced through a structured format of seeking patients’ agreement on every treatment stage or care for that matter.
Policies on Safety and Efforts, Currently In Place to Minimize Risks of Harm to Patients
There are several laid down policies on safety standards and procedures on the administration of drugs to prevent conditions such as I.V infiltration. Agencies like Infusion Nurses Society, for example, define frameworks for venipuncture treatment and I.V. catheter to avoid risk factors like extravasation complications.
Progressive care to the patients requires nurses to protect as much as possible patients from harm’s way (Stacy, 2011). An example includes a nurse wrongfully administering Meperidine I.V. leading to complaints of acute pains and burns by the patient. The patient who upon administration shows signs of edema, leakage skin temperature, and color change are likely to be infected and hence needs protection. Discomfort at the time of infusion portends vein damage leading to infiltration (Infusion Nurses Society, 2011).
Conclusion
The study demonstrates a progressive care patient’s education as crucial in bridging or filling the knowledge gap in patient’s management for those diagnosed with critical AF. It is also worth concluding that appropriate and timely alleviation of chronic illnesses such as stroke and heart failure, conditions triggered by irregular ventricular rates and the new-onset Atrial Fibrillation. Continuing progressive care education also can help upon recognition of early signs and systems, limit fluids that get to the catheter tissues. Agencies such as INS provide care administration techniques, like drug infusion, timely recognition of early signs and experience-based care. At the gist of progressive care education, therefore, involves observing, protecting and management of patients’ conditions at the PCU units.
References
Infusion Nurses Society. (2011). Infusion Nursing Standards of Practice (2011) (Vol. 34). Untreed Reads.
Stacy, K. M. (2011). Progressive care units: Different but the same. Critical Care Nurse, 31(3), 77-83.