Critical Care Research Update: Be a Smart Consumer

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

This session highlights the unique attributes, results and practice implications of selected studies in practice, focusing on current care issues and research. This session also presents strategies to enhance the use of evidence in practice, including becoming a smart consumer of evidence and how to integrate multiple studies to address a clinical issue. The importance of these studies in advancing acute and critical care nursing practice and areas requiring further research is discussed.

Objectives

Identify AACN’s priorities and discuss research studies and questions which arise from these priorities.
Analyze practice strategies to enhance skills and interpret research as a smart consumer of evidence.
Discuss research which addresses AACN’s priorities, or challenges or changes practice or asks a new question.

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.