Starting Now: Learn Your Vital Nursing Role as an Advocate

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

Embracing our role as patient advocates comes easy to us. We advocate for our practice by moving change forward, impacting patient and unit environment outcomes. Beyond this, we may be less confident in our advocacy skills. Many legislative proposals impacting nursing are created by non-nurses. Sharing our expertise with those setting policy should be a vital part of who we are as nurses. Session participants learn how to stretch our advocacy muscles to impact legislation and policy.

Objectives

Discuss the components of being a nurse advocate.
Analyze your role as an advocate for patients, for yourself, for your units and for our profession.
Examine nurses’ influence in formulating local, state and national policy impacting patients, nursing practice and our profession.

Continuing Education Disclosure Statement

Criteria for Awarding Contact Hours

Learners must complete the entire activity and the associated evaluation AND read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes. No partial credit will be awarded.

Accreditation

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

The Nurse Planner has determined that no individuals with the ability to control content of this activity have relevant relationships with ineligible companies.

Activities with pharmacotherapeutic credit are to assist the APRN in fulfilling their education requirements for licensure and certification renewals.

Refund Policy

Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.