Accredited continuing education (ACE) release date: June 29, 2023
SCCM Product Code: DEPOD23C
ACE expiration date: June 30, 2024
Estimated time for activity completion: 0.25 hour for podcast

• Describe optimal strategies for preventing sepsis and septic shock in the hospital setting

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

This podcast will teach participants how to have meaningful conversations with healthcare leaders to embrace quality improvement, particularly how it relates to preventing sepsis.

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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
• Patient care
• Practice-based improvement
• System-based practice

You can access the course materials, complete your evaluation; and claim your ACE credit by logging in to your MySCCM account with your SCCM Customer ID and password, then clicking on the icon for the course you are enrolled in under the MyLearning tab. If needed, you can click "Forgot my password" to reset your secure password.  

Physicians:

Accreditation Statement: The Society of Critical Care Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

Designation Statement: The Society of Critical Care Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 0.25 AMA PRA Category 1 credits™. Physicians should claim only those hours of credit that they actually spent in the educational activity.

The ACCME credits that physicians earn from this activity will be submitted to ACCME’s CME Passport, a free, centralized web application where you can create a personalized account to view, track, and generate transcripts of your reported ACCME credit. Visit www.cmepassport.org to create your account.

Nurses: The CMSS Mitigating Diagnostic Delays and Errors activity has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 8181, for up to .25 contact hours.  

Pharmacists: The Society of Critical Care Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This enduring educational activity provides up to .25 contact hours of continuing education credit.  

PLEASE NOTE: To credit must be claimed by the following dates:

SCCM reports to a continuing pharmacy education (CPE) tracking service, CPE Monitor, which will authenticate and store data for completed CPE units received by pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. The tracking system will make CPE data for each participant available to the state boards of pharmacy where the participant is licensed or registered. After CPE units are processed by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) and the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP), pharmacists and pharmacy technicians will be able to log in to a comprehensive electronic profile to access information about their completed CPE. 

Physician Assistants:
The American Academy of Physicians Assistants (AAPA) accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) or a recognized state medical society. Physician assistants may receive a maximum of 0.25 Category 1 credits for completing this activity. 

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

To provide due process in the evaluation and mediation of grievances concerning ACE activities, this Grievance Procedures Policy was developed. Grievances may concern, but are not limited to, the awarding of credit for individual participation and/or registration fees issues.

• A written complaint or grievance should be submitted to the Education Department.
• The Education Department will attempt to resolve the grievance of the complainant.
• If the initial response is unsatisfactory to the complainant, the matter will be referred to the CEO/EVP for action.
• If the response from the CEO/EVP is unsatisfactory to the complainant, the matter will be referred to the SCCM Executive Committee. The ruling of the Executive Committee will be final.

The content of this activity has been peer reviewed and has been approved for compliance. The faculty and contributors have indicated the following financial relationships, which have been resolved through an established conflict-of-interest resolution process and have stated that these reported relationships will not have any impact on their ability to provide unbiased content.

Planners:
Craig Coopersmith, MD, FACS, MCCM
Director, Emory Critical Care Center
Emory University Hospital
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Susan R. Lacey, PhD, RN, CNL, FAAN
Associate Director of Quality and Research
Society of Critical Care Medicine
Mount Prospect, IL, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Faculty:
Craig Coopersmith, MD, FACS, MCCM
Director, Emory Critical Care Center
Emory University Hospital
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose