Session Summary
Preserving patients’ and nurses’ dignity and integrity are cornerstones of ethical care. Step into two ICU-based, choose-your-own-adventure case studies that bring threats to dignity, moral distress, and moral resilience to life. Guided by a nurse ethicist and a frontline ICU nurse, this interactive session draws on the Mindful Ethical Practice and Resilience Academy (MEPRA) principles to explore how everyday decisions can erode—or restore—our moral integrity. Discover how moral resilience is cultivated through mindfulness, reflection on core values and everyday acts of courage.
Objectives
- Demonstrate how dignity violations contribute to moral suffering and compromised integrity in nursing practice.
- Define how dignity-preserving care fosters alignment with personal and professional integrity.
- Describe how applying MEPRA principles may cultivate an ethical climate to support patients and sustain nurses.
Topics
Ethics
Role
Staff
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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 2.50 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.