WHERE: Rendezvous Hotel, Melbourne. Following on from TAPNA Scientific Meeting 1-3 May 2024
WHEN:  Saturday 4 May 2024
COST: $150 per person

FACULTY
Maree Connor, Dave Fitzgerald, Ben Learmont, Celia Hall, and Laura Layton
A team of expert critical care Registered Nurses, Clinical Nurse Specialists and Clinical Nurse Consultants from across Australia including NSW, QLD and VIC. All are currently actively involved in clinical practice within ED/Critical care environments attached to inpatient Toxicology services. 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this workshop, participants will have had the opportunity to:

1. Identifying the priorities of managing a patient who presents with a toxicology emergency
2. Apply understanding of Common Toxidromes and their management
3. Demonstrate understanding of assessment and management for patients with paracetamol poisoning
4.  Explain the emergency and nursing management of envenomation
5. Identify the importance of, and feel confident in violence prevention and verbal de-escalation
6. Demonstrate an understanding different legal requirements and duty of care when caring for the agitated patient.

SESSION OVERVIEW

• Generic approach to managing the poisoned patient (including risk assessment and decontamination)
• Common Toxidromes; assessment and management
• Paracetamol Poisoning; it has many faces
• Snake bite and envenomation
• Approaching, assessing and caring for substance intoxication, agitated patients in the ED (double session, interactive)

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