At AACN, our top priority is empowering acute and critical nurses to make their optimal contribution in caring for patients and families. We do this, in part, by offering tools and resources to help you stay current in your practice. Following is a recap of the most-accessed content you and your colleagues were reading, watching and buying during 2016.
CE Articles
- Norepinephrine Dosing in Obese and Nonobese Patients With Septic Shock - Should norepinephrine infusions for support of hemodynamic status in patients with septic shock be weight-based?
- Updated Guidelines for Managing Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome: Focus on Antiplatelet Therapy - Nurses caring for patients with acute coronary syndrome need a thorough understanding of the current treatment guidelines.
- Burnout and Resilience Among Nurses Practicing in High-Intensity Settings - The high level of stress experienced by nurses can lead to moral distress, burnout and a host of other detrimental effects.
- Music as Medicine: The Therapeutic Potential of Music for Acute Stroke Patients - This review summarizes and examines the current literature regarding the effectiveness of music in the treatment of these critically ill patients.
AACN Webinars
- Caring Practice: Evidence-based Terminal Ventilator Withdrawal - Use of an evidence-based approach to terminal ventilator withdrawal supports the patient, family and nurse.
- Identify and Overcome Barriers to Nursing Practice - Understand the effect of the current healthcare environment on creating barriers to the practice of bedside nursing.
- Palliative Care in the ICU: Critical Communication Skills - Discover palliative care communication techniques to support seriously ill patients in the ICU.
- CRE: Beware the Latest Superbug - Learn about carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae (CRE) risks and what you can do to protect and treat patients.
Practice Alerts
- Prevention of Aspiration in Adults - Because no bedside tests are currently available to detect microaspirations, efforts to prevent or minimize aspiration take on added importance.
- Assessment and Management of Delirium Across the Life Span - Despite its high prevalence and adverse outcomes, delirium in the ICU often goes undetected and untreated.
- Alarm Management - Several strategies for alarm management have been suggested to reduce alarm fatigue and improve patient safety.
- Prevention of CAUTI in Adults - Despite efforts to reduce the occurrence of CAUTIs, their frequency increased 6 percent between 2009 and 2013.
Books
- Cardiac Surgery Advanced Life Support Course Manual - Learn everything you need to know about caring for the critically ill patient after cardiac surgery.
- AACN Procedure Manual for High Acuity, Progressive and Critical Care - Review the latest guidelines and protocols for procedures in high-acuity, progressive and critical care settings.
- Cardiac Surgery Essentials for Critical Care Nursing - Read up on significant changes in cardiac surgery and the nursing responsibilities to meet the needs of these acutely ill patients.
- Acute & Critical Care Nurse Practitioner: Cases in Diagnostic Reasoning - Helps nurse practitioners and nursing students learn to move from a broad differential diagnosis to a specific management plan.
Articles in American Journal of Critical Care (AJCC)
- An Official Critical Care Societies Collaborative Statement: Burnout Syndrome in Critical Care Health Care Professionals: A Call for Action - BOS is associated with many deleterious consequences, including increased job turnover, reduced patient satisfaction and decreased quality of care.
- Implementing an in Situ Mock Code Quality Improvement Program - Better understand the importance of transforming how nursing staff are trained to respond to medical emergencies.
- Emotional Intelligence: For the Leader in Us All - Discover helpful coping mechanisms for those inevitable stressful situations that come up in our chosen profession.
- Use of a Comprehensive Program to Reduce the Incidence of Hospital-Acquired Pressure Ulcers in an Intensive Care Unit - Review the effectiveness of a formal, year-long HAPU prevention program in an adult intensive care unit.
Articles in Critical Care Nurse (CCN)
- Tissue Oxygenation Monitoring as a Guide for Trauma Resuscitation - Hypoperfusion is the most common event preceding the onset of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome during trauma resuscitation.
- Application of Antibiotic Pharmacodynamics and Dosing Principles in Patients With Sepsis - All critical care professionals should understand antibiotic pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics to ensure sound antibiotic dosing and administration.
- Music as Medicine: The Therapeutic Potential of Music for Acute Stroke Patients - This review summarizes and examines the current literature regarding the effectiveness of music in the treatment of these critically ill patients.
- Progressive Care Nurses Improving Patient Safety by Limiting Interruptions During Medication Administration - Evaluate the effectiveness of evidence-based strategies to limit interruptions during scheduled, peak medication administration times.