It’s Time to Relieve the Pressure: Best Practices in Acute Pressure Injury Management in ICU

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

Surviving critical illness or injury is not without consequences. All too often, this involves development of an acute pressure injury. This advanced session describes the physiological origins of a pressure injury and the inter-relationship between risk factors in critically ill patients that predispose them to tissue injury. Identification of best-practice strategies for managing complex pressure injuries in the ICU can empower critical care nurses to be effective wound care champions.

Objectives

Explain the physiological sequence of events which contribute to the development of an acute pressure injury.
Identify ICU and patient-specific risk factors contributing to the development of a pressure injury in a critically ill patient.
Describe evidence-based strategies for optimal healing of an acute pressure injury, including setting up a successful wound care program.

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.