Rising Together: Implement National Standards for ICU and PCU Initial Nurse Competency

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

Do you ever reach the end of orientation, and wonder if the nurse is ready for more independent practice in your unit? This session defines a new national standard for orienting nurses new to the ICU or PCU, focusing on core competencies for safe practice and decreasing the orientee’s cognitive load. Results from beta testing this approach with various ICU and PCUs across the country is shared. Outcomes include the orientee's and unit leaders' confidence in the nurse’s readiness for practice, and provide criteria to help coach a few individuals to seek a different practice area.

Objectives

Assess the effectiveness of their current orientation process to evaluate initial nurse competence.
Outline a plan to improve their orientation process with a focus on overall competence and balancing the orientee’s cognitive load.
Identify outcomes measures that facilitate evaluation of the effectiveness of orientation process revision.

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.