Failure to Rescue: Optimizing Postoperative Surgical Care to Prevent Adverse Occurrences

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

It is imperative for all nurses to identify, advocate for and provide evidence-based delivery of nutritional therapy. This includes appropriate indications for holding feedings and recognition of refeeding syndrome. Emerging evidence on the gastrointestinal microbiome and effects of early feeding is essential to understand. This session examines the foundational evidence and guidelines for management and care of patients receiving enteral nutrition and is essential for nurses caring for patients in the acute care setting.

Objectives

Review the phenomenon of failure to rescue in surgical patients and complications that can lead to this untoward development.
Identify potentially effective interventions that nurses can implement to improve postoperative outcomes and prevent complications.
Discuss failure to rescue as a quality indicator for nursing and other clinical providers.

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.