Engaging Healthcare Leaders in Sepsis Prevention and Progression (Q&A)

The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) was awarded the Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS) to fund a diagnostic excellence program focusing on using education and technology for accurate and rapid-cycle sepsis diagnosis. This program will develop online education with subject matter experts that will:

Engaging Healthcare Leaders in Sepsis Prevention

Explore strategies that can influence healthcare leaders about sepsis prevention.  During this webcast, experts:

• Describe how morbidity from sepsis impacts an institution’s financial health
• List ways to engage hospital leaders in the continuum of infection to sepsis
• Review new technologies to facilitate sepsis identification and data collection

This complimentary webcast offers 1 hour of accredited continuing education credit.

This webcast is funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation through a grant program administered by the Council of Medical Specialty Societies.

continuing Education
Accredited continuing education (ACE) release date: July 26, 2023
SCCM Product Code: DEWEB23DON
ACE expiration date: July 30, 2024
Estimated time for activity completion: 1 hour

Learning Objectives

Describe how morbidity from sepsis impacts the financial health of an organization
List ways to engage hospital leaders from the infection to sepsis continuum
Describe how to review new technologies to facilitate sepsis identification and data collection

Target Audience

• Advanced practice nurses
• Clinical nurse specialists
• In-training practitioners
• Medical directors
• Nurses
• Nurse managers
• Pharmacists
• Physicians
• Physician assistants
• Respiratory care practitioners
• Surgeons

Target Audience

This live webcast will share ways to use cost data to garner resources to prevent adverse events like hospital-acquired sepsis.

Competencies

The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) supports recommendations that will promote lifelong learning through continuing education. SCCM promotes activities that encourage the highest quality in education that will enhance knowledge, competence, or performance in critical care practice. This activity will meet the following competencies:

• Interpersonal communication skills
• Practice-based improvement
• System-based practice