Session Summary
This session prepares new graduate nurses to navigate the emotional and communication challenges of patient death in the ICU by integrating structured coping strategies into high-fidelity mock code drills. Using an unfolding, ICU-based scenario, we discuss commutation techniques to deliver bad news, explore tools such as guided pauses that support compassionate communication following unsuccessful resuscitation and discuss the role of grief support among critical care nurses.
Objectives
- Examine personal and professional responses to patient death following a mock resuscitation scenario.
- Evaluate effective communication techniques for delivering death notifications to family members during a simulated post code discussion.
- Describe the use of structured debriefing to process the impact of an unsuccessful resuscitation.
Topics
Palliative/End-of-life Care
Population
Adult
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 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.