Immunosuppressed Patient: How It Impacts Critical Care

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

Immunotherapy is a type of biological therapy which employs substances to stimulate or suppress the immune system to help the body fight against what it perceives to be a foreign substance. The antigen-antibody reaction results in a cytokine storm that hopefully destroys the target. Immunotherapy includes monoclonal antibodies, checkpoint inhibitors and adoptive cellular therapies which can lead to an inflammatory response, resulting in significant clinical deterioration that requires critical care interventions. Pharmacology content = 50%.

Objectives

Articulate how care of the immunosuppressed patients is impacted by these new therapies.
Compare immunotherapy agents and their side effects regarding patients.
Differentiate care of the immunosuppressed patient from the care of other critically ill patients.

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, for 1.00 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.

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Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.