Critical Care 1109 - Critical Care Alert

Target Audience:

This educational activity is intended for critical care physicians and nurses.

Accreditation:

AHC Media is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Credit Designation:

This activity has been approved for 1.0 nursing contact hours using a 60-minute contact hour.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # 14749, for 1.0 Contact Hours.

Nurses licensed in California should retain this credit letter for four years.

Faculty

Editor
David J. Pierson, MD
Professor
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Harborview Medical Center
University of Washington
Seattle

Nurse Planner
Leslie A. Hoffman, PhD, RN
Department of Acute/Tertiary Care
School of Nursing
University of Pittsburgh

Peer Reviewer
William Thompson, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Washington
Seattle

Associate Editors
Andrew M. Luks, MD
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
University of Washington
Seattle

Karen L. Johnson, PhD, RN
School of Nursing
University of Maryland
Baltimore

Subjects:

APC for Lower-Risk Sepsis: Outcomes at One Year
Nurse Staffing Influences Infection Rates in Elderly ICU Patients
Geriatric Trauma and End-of-Life Decisions

Objectives:

Identify the particular clinical, legal, or scientific issues related to critical care
Describe how those issues affect nurses, health care workers, hospitals, or the health care industry in general
Cite solutions to the problems associated with those issues

Financial Disclosure:

Critical Care Alert’s Editor, David J. Pierson, MD, Nurse Planner Leslie A. Hoffman, PhD, RN, Peer Reviewer William Thompson, MD, Associate Editors Andrew M. Luks, MD, and Karen L. Johnson, PhD, RN, report no financial relationships related to this field of study.

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Critical Care 1109 - Critical Care Alert - Sep 01, 2007