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Overview
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 bloodstream infections (CLABSIs), and the importance of early initiation of enteral nutrition in the critically ill patient population to reduce the risk of malnutrition.
Goals and Learning Outcomes
- 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 Details
Course Originally Released on : 5/1/2024
Course Expiration Date : 12/31/2027
REL-ACU-0-CSEFEP
Course Author
BSN, RN, CCRN
MSN, AGACNP-BC, CCRN, CNRN
Accreditations
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.
CEBroker
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, New Mexico Board Of Nursing, South Carolina Board Of Nursing and West Virginia Board Of Examiners For Registered Professional 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.

