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CE Home > Emergency Nursing > Rattlesnake Bite

Rattlesnake Bite    
Treatment or Mistreatment?
by Lauren Fisher, RN, BS, CSPI and Linda Laskowski-Jones, RN, MS, ACNS-BC, CCRN, CEN
CE167-60 l 1.00 hr

Rattlesnake Bite - CE167-60  


        Price  ( $ 10.00 )
Objectives:
The goal of this program is to update nurses’ clinical knowledge about the recognition, care, and treatment of patients who have snakebites. After you study the information presented here, you will be able to —
  • Recognize signs and symptoms of snakebites.
  • Name four treatments that should not be used for rattlesnake bites.
  • List three indications for antivenin administration and infusion precautions.

This course will be updated or discontinued on or before 1/15/2013



 
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