Surviving Your Shift: A Values-Based Tool to Prioritize Patient Care in Times of Limited Resources

Author(s): Sharon L Hickin

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Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

ICU staff are well-acquainted with resource scarcity thanks to the pandemic. In this session we introduce learners to a front-line, informed, values-based tool to support prioritizing care. Participants engage in an interactive process to identify situations impacting patient care, explore their own values related to prioritizing care in a setting of scarce resources and explore actions to mitigate moral distress.

Objectives

  • Explain how a values-based approach to prioritizing care can support clinical decision-making.
  • Describe practical strategies to prioritize care.
  • Identify personal values and learn how to incorporate them into clinical decisions to decrease moral distress.

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. 

Refund Policy

Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.