Building Our Future: Using Evidence to Create an Office of Advanced Practice

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

The APRN workforce continues to grow, with centralized, administrative centers for advanced practice sustaining workforce growth. APRN organizational design, transformational leadership and community engagement are success factors for high-performing offices of advanced practice. Attendees learn evidence-based components of high-performing centers for advanced practice and apply them in a case study to create an office of advanced practice in an academic medical center.

Objectives

Define the structural elements of a centralized, high-performing office of advanced practice.
Identify the components and impact of APRN transformational leadership, self-governance and community engagement.
Apply evidence-based concepts in a case study to design and build an office of advanced practice.

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.