Session Summary
This session introduces micro-credentials as an emerging tool for clinicians’ professional development portfolios. Designed for nurses and other healthcare professionals, this session explains what micro-credentials are, where to find them and how they validate focused knowledge, skills, and competencies. Attendees learn how micro-credentials complement continuing education and certification, support ongoing competence and lifelong learning and promote clinical excellence.
Objectives
- Define the purpose and key characteristics of micro-credentials as an approach to validating focused knowledge, skills and competence.
- Describe how micro-credentials complement traditional continuing education and certification in healthcare.
- Identify how micro-credentials can be leveraged to support clinical excellence, professional growth and patient safety.
Topics
Certification
Role
Manager, Educator, APRN, Staff, Researcher
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Successful Completion
Learners must complete the entire activity and the associated evaluation to be awarded contact hours AND read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes. No partial credit will be awarded.
Accreditation
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider number CEP 1036, for 1.25 contact hours.
Disclosure
Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content will be identified by the Nurse Planner within the activity. Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content has been mitigated.
Accreditation refers to recognition of continuing education only and does not imply AACN, ANCC, or CBRN approval or endorsement of any commercial products discussed or displayed in conjunction with this educational activity.
Activities with pharmacology hours are to assist the APRN in fulfilling the pharmacotherapeutic education requirements for licensure and certification renewals.
Activities meet the standards for most states that require mandatory continuing education for license and/or certification renewal. AACN recommends consulting with your own state board of nursing or credentialing organization before submitting your certificate of completion.
Refund Policy
Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.