Achieving Beacon in a Rural Hospital: Success through Staff and Leadership Collaboration

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

If you are looking for ideas to break through barriers to applying for Beacon, hear how a Rural Nursing Critical Care team that was striving for excellence in critical care embarked on the Beacon journey. Through the support and advocacy of nursing executive leadership and frontline collaboration, the team turned the opportunity into success. The outcomes yielded significant improvement in quality, safety, work culture and engagement, professional development and financial stewardship. This demonstrates that resources and size do not have to limit excellence when there is a clear roadmap to success such as the Beacon Award for Excellence.

Objectives

Describe how to leverage the Beacon Award for Excellence as a self-assessment tool to improve outcomes despite location or size of the team delivering critical care.
Explain the strategies used to advocate for resource allocations needed to embark on long-term improvement journeys such as the Beacon Award for Excellence to sustain patient care outcomes regardless of hospital size or location.
Gain insight into the return on investment for the staff, team, patients, and organization by striving for national recognition and participating in the Beacon Award of Excellence.

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.