Description
Objectives:
1. Assist nurses and healthcare professionals how to assess and manage concussions in pediatric, adolescent, and adult populations; highlighting the differences in presentation and care needs.
2. Identify how to recognize critical warning signs and determine when additional diagnostic testing or specialist referrals are required.
3. Discuss evidence-based approaches to address common post-concussion symptoms, including pain, sleep disturbances, and cognitive challenges.
4. Explore the connection between concussions and mental health, offering tools for assessing, screening, and supporting patients experiencing emotional or psychological impacts.
5. Counselling parents/patients/caregivers regarding what to watch for at home and when to bring the child/adolescent/patient to the emergency department
6. Provide an update on cutting-edge research in concussion care, providing practical, evidence-based tips to enhance recovery outcomes for patients across all age groups.
Description:
This webinar will help nurses and healthcare professionals to assess and manage concussions in pediatric, adolescent, and adult populations, highlighting the differences in presentation and care needs. we’ll cover how to recognize critical warning signs and determine when additional diagnostic testing or specialist referrals are required. Evidence-based approaches will be presented to address common post-concussion symptoms, including pain, sleep disturbances, and cognitive challenges. We’ll explore the connection between concussions and mental health, offering tools for assessing, screening, and supporting patients experiencing emotional or psychological impacts. Finally, we’ll provide an update on cutting-edge research in concussion care, providing practical, evidence-based tips to enhance recovery outcomes for patients across all age groups.
Who Should Attend?:
• Nurses in Acute Care, Critical Care, Geriatric, Rehabilitation, Mental Health, & Home Care Settings
• Pediatric nurses; Nurses who care for adults, but occasionally care for children
• Nurses from mixed medical-surgical/pediatric units
• Emergency and critical care nurses
• Nurses in Primary Care, Ambulatory Care, Tele-Health & Outpost Nurses
• Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists
Hayley Lane, RN, BN, MN, CNN(C)
Hayley Lane obtained her Bachelors of Science Nursing Degree through the University of Calgary in 2008. She found her home on neuro early in her career, starting on an acute neurology and neurosurgery unit in 2007 as an Undergraduate Nurse. Inspired by the variety and challenges of this specialty, she achieved her Advanced Critical Care Nursing – Neuro Certificate through Mount Royal University in 2013, and wrote her CNA Neuro certification exam in 2013. She wanted to learn more about the ethically challenging aspects of neuroscience care, and doing a Masters of Nursing in Advance Practice Leadership through the University of Victoria gave her the opportunity to explore the experience of moral distress in neuroscience nursing, as well as evidence-based ways to mitigate this distress. She also became the Nurse Educator for the same neuro unit she started on, and has happily enjoyed this role since 2014. She has been an active member of CANN since 2013, speaking at several local and national conferences, and assumed the role of Alberta South Councillor in 2022.
