Intensive Care Unit Clinicians’ Perspectives on Achieving Proactive Interprofessional Family Meetings

Activity Summary

A key barrier to proactive family meetings is the mindset that family meetings need occur only when a clinical decision must be made, rather than proactively to support and engage families. Clinicians suggested ways to make proactive family meetings routine.

Objectives

Identify common barriers (at the clinician, unit, and hospital level) to implementing proactive interprofessional family meetings in the ICU
Describe how clinicians’ beliefs about the purpose of family meetings might impact the timing of family meetings
List three members (professional role) of the ICU team who can facilitate the implementation of proactive interprofessional family meetings

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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.

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Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider number CEP 1036, for 1.00 contact hours.

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