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

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.