How to Work Through Ethical Challenges and Moral Distress in Critical Care

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

Nurses face ethical challenges every day and yet may not possess adequate knowledge, skills or confidence to effectively address these challenges in an analytical and systematic way. In this session, the audience is guided through two patient cases and provided with foundational ethics knowledge and decision-making frameworks to provide ethically defensible recommendations and to mitigate moral distress.

Objectives

Identify everyday ethical challenges in critical care and how to systematically work through them.
Describe different ethical frameworks to inform decision-making.
Recognize moral distress and provide effective peer support.

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.