Session Summary
This session explores the traumatic nature of an intensive care unit (ICU) stay and its impact on mental health, focusing on medical trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and postintensive care syndrome (PICS). We explain trauma-informed care (TIC) principles and offer strategies to integrate them into ICU and outpatient recovery programs, aiming to reduce the burden of PICS and support posttraumatic growth. Case studies illustrate these concepts.
Objectives
- Define medical trauma and its link to posttraumatic stress disorder and postintensive care syndrome.
- Describe how trauma-informed care enhances ICU patient recovery.
- Identify ways to integrate trauma-informed care in clinical practice.
Topics
Behavioral/Psychosocial, Trauma
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.