The Advanced Nursing Assessment classes are designed to provide clinically relevant information and case studies of critically ill patients. Instruction is led by Critical Care Nursing Educators, Nurse Practitioners, Physicians, Critical Care Nurses, and NEPD Educators to advance assessment knowledge and treatment modalities in high acuity settings.

This series will cover the following topics: an introduction to pediatric palliative care and hospice, ethics, communication, end of life pain, symptom management, spiritual/cultural aspects of care, and end of life in the mother/baby and NICU.

This series will allow discussion of relevant journal articles and implications to advanced practice providers current practice.

Each workshop will have a different focus, but many activities will allow participants to learn about available data sources at VUMC within Epic (e.g., SlicerDicer, Reporting Workbench, Clarity) and developed locally (e.g., Synthetic Derivative and Research Derivative). Participants will receive de-identified data sets from these sources and will gain hands-on experience in manipulating the data sets in programs such as Microsoft Excel and Tableau to answer questions about health disparities, pa...

This series will allow participants to obtain resources and support for preceptor tools to use within their departments.

The Advanced Nursing Assessment classes are designed to provide clinically relevant information and case studies of critically ill patients. Instruction is led by Critical Care Nursing Educators, Nurse Practitioners, Physicians, Critical Care Nurses, and NEPD Educators to advance assessment knowledge and treatment modalities in high acuity settings.

New oncology nurses will gain knowledge related to hematologic diseases, treatment and patient care.

This conference, scheduled every week on Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic, will examine current challenging complex infectious disease cases. Information about presenting signs and symptoms and current care will be presented, relevant evidence and local experience will be discussed, and strategies for future care will be suggested.

The Perioperative Medicine Seminar Series presents topics in a case-based format related to all areas of perioperative management of the surgical patient, including: - Prehabilitation and optimization - Smoking cessation, anemia management, and nutrition - Medical management of the surgical patient, including neurologic, cardiopulmonary, endocrine, hematologic systems - ERAS pathway creation and implementation - Opioid minimization and management of patients with chronic opioid use - Auditing an...

The Ultrasound Guided Regional Anesthesia Skills Workshop is a hands-on learning opportunity to learn peripheral nerve blocks (truncal blocks). The workshop is offered in CELA on the second and fourth Wednesday of every month from 6:30 to 7:30 am. Topics include runcal Blocks (Rectus Sheath,TAP blocks, OS TAP). Learning objectives: 1) Understanding the anatomy, 2) Indications for the blocks, and 3) Gaining proficiency in the performance of the blocks