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

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.