Rising Together: Bringing Our Nurse Home

Author(s): Bader Mary Kay

Contact Hours 1.00

CERP C 1.00

Expires Dec 31, 2026

Topics: Healthy Work Environment, Collaboration

Role: Staff

Fees
Member: Free
NonMember: $10.00

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Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

A US RN sustains a sudden traumatic event while abroad touring with her husband and is left paralyzed from the chest down. An ICU Team/hospital unites/rise together to bring our nurse home collaborating with CR ICU Team and overcoming complex barriers while her husband navigates a foreign medical system and shares their story with the press to help bring his wife home. Join members of the team, the patient-Deanne Niedziella and her husband Ken Niedziella as they use storytelling to chronicle the journey of healing.

Objectives

  • Relate the physiological insult of spinal cord injury and the impact on body systems to critical care priorities
  • Describe the complex elements of negotiating with insurance, benefits, & funding to support medivac extraction/ transfer back to the US
  • Identify the benefits of story retelling on patient/family/team healing following a traumatic event

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.