Community Acquired Pneumonia:
By Susan B. Fowler, PhD, RN, CNRN, FAHA
Expiration Date: December 31, 2010. No CE contact hours (CH) will be given after this date.
Purpose: To provide registered nurses with information to help them better care for patients with community-acquired pneumonia.
Objectives:
- Recall the diagnostic tests used for CAP.
- Describe the medical management of patients with CAP.
- Discuss the nursing care of patients with CAP.
- State steps for preventing CAP.
Description: Base your patient care on the latest evidence-based recommendations for managing community-acquired pneumonia.
Read the article [PDF], then click on the link below to take the test.
Susan B. Fowler is a Clinical Nurse Researcher at Morristown Memorial Hospital in Morristown, New Jersey. She is a former Outcomes Manager for Pneumonia at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville, New Jersey.
The planners and author of this CNE activity have disclosed no relevant financial relationships with any commercial companies pertaining to this activity.
1.6 contact hours, including 0.75 pharmacology contact hours, are provided by ANA.
The American Nurses Association Center for Continuing Education and Professional Development is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
ANA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider number CEP6178.
