Leadership Pearls from Restructuring to a Mixed-Acuity ICU

Activity Summary

The restructuring of a nursing unit can be a time of chaos and uncertainty. This session outlines leadership strategies to foster a culture of teamwork during significant change, and educational approaches to orienting an entire unit to a higher level of care. Learn about the complexities of merging from leaders who transitioned an ICU and PCU into one patient-centered, mixed-acuity unit. We share challenges, successes and outcomes of the change.

Objectives

Examine reasons for the restructure of a cardiac ICU and a cardiac PCU into a mixed-acuity unit.
Assess leadership and educational strategies used during the process of merging two critical care units.
Evaluate patient, staff and unit outcomes one year after transition to a mixed-acuity ICU.

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 {contactHours} contact hours.

Disclosures

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.