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NTI

The Body, the Bedside, and the Battle to Stay Whole

Facilitator(s): Brittany Herring, APRN, CPNP-AC/PC

Supported by: Pediatric Nursing Learning Center

CERP B 0.50
San Diego Conference
Date Wednesday 5/20/2026
Time 12:45 PM - 1:15 PM PT
Booth 2109

Session Summary

Critical care clinicians are trained to endure long hours, high stakes decisions, and repeated exposure to suffering, often at the expense of their own physical and psychological well-being. The Body, the Bedside, and the Battle to Stay Whole explores how personal illness and patient lived experience can profoundly reshape resilience, empathy, and professional identity within high-acuity care environments.

Objectives

  • Describe the impact of personal illness and patient lived experience on resilience, empathy, and professional identity in critical care.
  • Identify evidence-informed strategies that promote self-preservation, psychological safety, and professional longevity in high-acuity setting.
Topics Well-Being
Population Pediatric

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Continuing Education Disclosure Statement

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, {{contactHoursCalc}} 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.