Session Summary
Why apply for a Beacon Unit of Excellence award? Patient care units that achieve a Beacon award have been shown to positively impact patient outcomes and nursing sensitive indicators. This session is designed to share supportive literature, identify examples of innovative quality improvement projects that led to achieving two GOLD awards for an ICU and IMC, and to increase the audience’s interest and confidence in applying for Beacon. You can do it too!
Objectives
- Describe the literature on the positive impact that Beacon Units of Excellence have on patient care outcomes.
- Identify several key innovative projects implemented to improve patient outcomes.
- Explain a case study outlining a best practice for treating newly septic inpatients in a timely manner.
Topics
Beacon, Quality Improvement
Population
Adult
Role
Manager, 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.