Transforming Nurses’ Moral Suffering by Cultivating Moral Resilience

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

Moral suffering occurs when nurses cause harm to those in their care, witness trusted colleagues cross a line, meet violence at work or feel betrayed by healthcare systems or society. These disorienting realities can undermine nurses’ identity, integrity and wellbeing. Using experiential practices, the sources and consequences of moral suffering, the learner discovers strategies to cultivate moral resilience in order to buffer the detrimental impact and empower nurses to restore their integrity and wellbeing.

Objectives

Define moral suffering and its dimensions, prevalence and common sources in healthcare.
Describe the components of moral resilience and its application to critical care nursing practice.
Apply promising practices to cultivate moral resilience in response to situations of moral adversity in critical care.

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.