Session Summary
Despite safety efforts, central line-associated bloodstream infections and hospital-acquired pressure injuries continue to pose serious risks in ICU settings. This session examines how a critical care team applied the Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPS) model to redesign care processes and enhance patient outcomes. Nurse leaders, bedside staff and interdisciplinary partners collaborated to identify human factors, optimize workflows and implement sustainable improvements using root cause analysis and actions. Attendees learn practical, team-based strategies to lead system redesign for safer, high-quality critical care.
Objectives
- Explain the elements of human factors and ergonomics and their application to healthcare and nursing, focusing on patient safety.
- Discuss the impact of performance-influencing and performance-shaping factors in achieving patient care and organizational outcomes.
- Formulate actions to improve patient safety and quality of care applying the SEIPS model.
Topics
Quality Improvement
Role
Manager, APRN, 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 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.