Starting Now: Leading Practice by Removing Practice Habits

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

National organizations, including AACN, state science must drive practice. Current best evidence should be embraced and moved into practice, providing foundational knowledge thereby improving patient outcomes. Questioning practice traditions and challenging habits is necessary to ensure best practice that improve outcomes. This session identifies selected practice traditions, reviews current evidence, including technology advancements to move practice forward based on science, not tradition.

Objectives

Explain how research and other forms of evidence should be applied as the foundation for your nursing practice.
Appraise two practice traditions you will change to improve your role as a practicing nurse.
Identify one barrier and possible solutions to implementing evidence-based practice in your clinical practice setting.

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.