Do Your Sepsis Practices Measure up? Webinar Series

AACN Critical Care Webinar Series

Adapted from the AACN website

• Live Q&A: Do Your Sepsis Practices Measure Up?
• Presented by: Thomas Ahrens, RN, PhD, FAAN
• Live webinar: Thursday December 11, 2014 12:00pm -12:30pm Central Time
• Duration: 30 minutes
• Cost: Free to AACN members and nonmembers (webinar only)

Are you aware that sepsis will become a Core Measure in 2016? An educational session provided by AACN can provide you with the information you need to provide optimal care for your patients and confirm best practices in your unit and hospital.

A brief presentation will focus on the process criteria that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is establishing for hospitals, with the majority of the webinar dedicated to answering your sepsis-related questions. National sepsis expert Dr. Tom Ahrens will offer solutions to the barriers you've encountered in caring for patients, so you can ensure that best practices from the Surviving Sepsis Campaign are followed at your hospital.

You are encouraged to submit questions in advance of the live event through AACN's Practice Resource Network, using "AACN Critical Care Webinar Series" as a topic.

Learning Objectives

At the end of the session, participants will be able to:

1. Define the process criteria that CMS will implement in 2016 to make sepsis a Core Measure.
2. Review barriers to full implementation of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines that are commonly seen in practice, and learn strategies to address them.
3. Evaluate sepsis-related practices in your unit, and consider where you have opportunities to establish or improve these practices for your patients.

Continuing Nursing Education Credit

• 0.5 contact hour of CNE available (Synergy Category A).
• Free to AACN members ($5 fee for nonmembers).

All further information can be found here at the AACN website.