Intensive Care Units to Intentional Care Units: Inter-Professional Journey in a Community Hospital

Activity Summary

ABCDEF Bundle has proven to offset the effects of Post-ICU Syndrome (PICS). This community-based hospital chose to implement components of the bundle, including a PICS clinic and intensive care unit (ICU) support group. This intermediate session is intended to provide strategic pearls gleaned, share perceived and actual barriers, methods utilized to overcome those barriers and the desire to encourage others to embark on a similar journey.

Objectives

Identify strategies to support, develop and implement evidence-based cultural shift towards intentional care in critical care areas.
Describe various inter-professional strategies and processes to facilitate evidence-based care in non-academic community-based hospital.
Utilize case study to show benefits of initiating inter-professional processes to enhance intentional inside/outside critical care areas.

Continuing Education Disclosure Statement

Successful Completion

Learners must attend/view/read the entire activity, read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes, and complete the associated evaluation to be awarded the contact hours or CERP. 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 0.00 contact hours.

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.

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.

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Refund Policy

Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.