Accredited continuing education (ACE) release date: September 19, 2024 
SCCM Product Code: LEADWEB24A
ACE expiration date: September 19, 2025
Estimated time for activity completion: 1 hour 

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• Discuss the skills hierarchy, including the distinction among foundational skills, super skills, and ultra skills and how these levels impact career growth and professional success
• Identify personal skill gaps, explore self-assessment techniques, and apply practical strategies for addressing skill gaps
• Implement skill-based development plans and create personalized development plans that focus on enhancing specific skills by applying strategies for continuous learning, mentorship, and skill mastery

This continuing education activity is intended to meet the needs of all practitioners who care for critically ill patients, including: 

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

This live activity will provide a framework for understanding and developing skills relevant to professional and personal growth in his Critical Connections article, “Professional Development: Skills, Super Skills, and Ultra Skills.” 

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 learning and improvement

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 live educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 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 Skills, Super Skills, and Ultra Skills activity has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 8181, for up to 1.0 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 live educational activity provides up to 1.0 contact hours of continuing education credit.  

PLEASE NOTE: To claim LIVE credits, credits from each session 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. 

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.