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Goals and Learning Outcomes

Evidence-based practice allows nurses to use credible research to improve patient outcomes. By providing care in accordance with these practices, patients receive the best management and treatment options available. This learning activity reviews the evidence behind three initiatives: Spontaneous breathing and awakening trials for patients requiring mechanical ventilation, prevention of central line-associated blood stream infections (CLABSIs), and the importance of early initiation of enteral nutrition in the critically ill patient population to reduce the risk of malnutrition. The goal of this course is to provide evidence-based recommendations regarding sedation management, central line-associated blood stream infections (CLABSIs), and early enteral feeding to prevent malnutrition.

The goal of this course is to provide evidence-based recommendations to nursing professionals in acute care settings regarding sedation management, central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs), and early enteral feeding to prevent malnutrition.


After taking this course, you should be able to:

  • Describe “sedation vacation” protocols for mechanically ventilated ICU patients
  • State the nurseÂ’s role in decreasing CLABSIs
  • Discuss current recommendations for early initiation of enteral feedings in critically ill patients
  • Describe the nurse’s role during a spontaneous awakening and spontaneous breathing trial in the mechanically ventilated, critically ill patient population.
  • Identify the nurse’s role in decreasing the risk of central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs).
  • Discuss at least three characteristics of malnutrition and current recommendations for early initiation of enteral feedings in critically ill patients.

Course Termination Date: Not yet determined

Content Expiration Date: 12/31/24

Course Originally Released On: 05/01/21

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Accreditation Information

NURSES

In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP#13791

Disclaimer: Not all courses will provide California Board of Registered Nursing approval. Per California Assembly Bill No. 241, continuing education courses related to direct patient care shall address at least one or a combination of the following:(1) Examples of how implicit bias affects perceptions and treatment decisions of licensees, leading to disparities in health outcomes; or (2) Strategies to address how unintended biases in decision-making may contribute to health care disparities by shaping behavior and producing differences in medical treatment along lines of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics.

 

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Relias LLC reports to CEBroker for the following boards (Provider # 50-1489): Arkansas State Board Of Nursing, District Of Columbia Board Of Nursing, Florida Board Of Nursing, Georgia Board Of Nursing, Kansas State Board of Nursing, Kentucky Board of Nursing, Michigan Board of Nursing, Mississippi Board of Nursing, New Hampshire Board of Nursing, New Mexico Board Of Nursing, North Dakota Board of Nursing, South Carolina Board Of Nursing and West Virginia Board Of Registered Nurses

 

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Disclosures

None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.