Ketamine in the ICU: New Insights and Application

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

Session participants gain a through understanding of the history of ketamine and enhanced knowledge for the multiple considerations for using ketamine to manage both pain and sedation, as well as other off-label uses in the critical care and acute care settings. Participants learn to understand risks, benefits and nursing implications when using ketamine for their patients.

Objectives

Define indications and potential benefits of utilizing ketamine in the ICU, stepdown and med surg units for adjunct pain control.
Explain proposed mechanism of action for ketamine's unique therapeutic effects.
Identify key nursing considerations of ketamine administration, including identification and management of dissociative effects.

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.