The S.T.A.B.L.E. Program - March 12, 2024
This is a live, in-person educational activity. The S.T.A.B.L.E. Program® educational course provides didactic, video and conversational opportunities to learn about post-resuscitation care of sick and premature newborns prior to transport of the infant to a higher-level Intensive Care Nursery. The activity designed is to reach healthcare providers of many disciplines and deliver a platform that learners can use to develop, organize, and carry out a systematic method of assessment and stabilization skills to ensure the sick newborn patient has the best opportunity for good outcomes. This activity provides a framework of skills covering several key components, including glucose management, thermal regulation, and respiratory management, among others, that health care providers responsible for the initial management of these sick patients can use.
Target Audience
This activity is designed for perinatal, pediatric and emergency physicians, OB nurses, respiratory therapists and EMS pre-hospital providers. Other learner groups such as emergency department, obstetrical technicians, medical students and nursing students would also benefit from this education.
Learning Objectives
At the completion of this course, the participant should be able to:
- identify infants at risk for hypoglycemia, monitor for signs of, treatment for, and post-treatment reassessment for hypoglycemia
- identify physiologic responses to hypothermia for term and preterm infants
- state indications for assisted ventilation and initial steps in ventilatory support
- explain physical examination to evaluate for shock
- state risk factors that predispose an infant to infection and the clinical signs of sepsis
- identify ways health care providers can support parents of sick infants
Travel
The Henry Hood Center for Health Research is located on the Geisinger Campus in Danville, Pennsylvania (Montour County), Exit 224 on Interstate 80. Routes 11 and 54 also intersect in Danville.
Accreditation
In support of improving patient care, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Credit Designation
Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 7.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the educational activity.
Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine designates this live activity for 7.5 contact hours for nurses. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the educational activity.
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 7.5 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.
Disclosure Policy
Faculty and all others who have the ability to control the content of continuing education activity sponsored by Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine must disclose to the program audience whether they do or do not have any real or apparent conflict(s) of interest or other relationships related to the content of their presentation(s).
Available Credit
- 7.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 7.50 ANCC
- 7.50 Participation Credit