Session Summary
Patients move fluidly across levels of care; nursing teams often do not. This panel brings med-surg and critical care nurses together to explore shared challenges, dispel misconceptions and strengthen collaboration across the care continuum. Through real-world dialogue and practical strategies, attendees will gain insights to improve transitions, teamwork and patient outcomes while supporting nurse growth and practice readiness.
Objectives
- Identify shared challenges and misconceptions between med-surg and critical care nursing that impact teamwork, transitions and patient outcomes.
- Discuss practical strategies for strengthening collaboration, communication and mutual respect across levels of care.
- Apply insights from real-world experiences to support smoother nurse transitions, professional growth and safer patient care across the continuum.
Topics
Collaboration
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 1.00 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.