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Start Warm, Stay Warm: A Focus on Maintaining Normothermia Perioperatively

September 5, 2024

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Seth Hendee

Join Kristy Warren, MSN Ed, RN Director of Clinical Resources at Encompass, as she discusses focusing on maintaining normothermia perioperatively.

Attendees will learn:

  • The evolving outpatient surgical population.
  • The continuing prevalence of hypothermia.
  • Understand the role of Enhanced Recovery after Surgery and patient warming.
  • Understand the role of the perioperative team in maintaining normothermia.
  • Cutaneous heat loss and the Rule of Nines.
  • Typical warming methods.
  • Ways to combine active and passive warming to achieve optimal outcomes.

Certification: This webinar is eligible for 1 CE credit. OR Today is approved and licensed to be a Continuing Education Provider with the California Board of Registered Nurses, License #16623

Kristy Warren MSN Ed, RN Director of Clinical Resources joined the Encompass team in July 2016.  She began her clinical career in the emergency department with a focus on trauma and advanced cardiac life support. In addition to leadership in the Emergency Department, Kristy joined the American Heart Association where she held the role of advanced cardiac life support Instructor. Kristy has served many progressing leadership roles in the acute care environment including Director of Education, and Clinical Nurse Manager of a 52-bed critical care unit. Kristy’s current role at Encompass allows her to bring her education, experience, leadership, and skills to the development and manufacturing side where her focus is on best practices, innovation, design, development, collaboration, training, and education. She is a member of the Association of PeriOperative Registered Nurses (AORN), Wound Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society (WOCN), National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel (NPIAP), Association of Linen Management (ALM) and Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI). In addition to her role as Clinical Resource Director at Encompass Group, she is currently serving as a volunteer in the role of Team Lead for the CE Approval Unit (CEAC) committee at AORN. Kristy holds a Master of Science in Nursing Education from the University of Phoenix along with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Central Florida. Kristy resides in Orlando, FL.

Encompass is one of the world’s leading manufacturers and marketers of healthcare textiles, healthcare apparel, patient warming and therapeutic support products for the healthcare industry. Encompass believes that every patient, resident, caregiver, and family member should feel safe and comfortable in today’s healthcare environments. The way Encompass enhances the healthcare experience is by developing innovative products that are reliably delivered and cost effective for all providers. The markets they serve include Acute Care, Long-Term Care/Senior Care, Retail Health Care Apparel, Hospitality, and Government Operations. For more information, please visit www.encompassgroup.com, email info@encompassgroup.net, or call (800) 284-4540. 

 

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