Build and Strengthen Your Professional Nursing Practice, Starting Now

Author(s): Michelle Dedeo

Contact Hours 1.00

CERP B 1.00

Expires Nov 15, 2026

Topics: Career Development, Legal

Role: Staff

Fees
Member: Free
NonMember: $10.00

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Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

Nursing is a career that requires knowledge of professional practice standards, legal risk, accountability, communication expectations and self-regulation. Nurses maintain their role and responsibility in all aspects of their life, both personal and professional. This foundational session offers a framework for building and maintaining a safe, defensible practice founded on evidence and standards of nursing. Build a nursing career founded on longevity—starting now.

Objectives

  • Discuss professional nursing practice expectations and principles of nursing practice standards.
  • Describe reportable and potentially reportable nursing practice deviations related to professional nursing practice.
  • Examine best practice recommendations to prevent and minimize the risk of legal practice challenges.

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.