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

• 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

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

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

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

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 enduring 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 Engaging Healthcare Leaders in Sepsis Prevention 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 enduring educational activity provides up to 1.0 contact hours of continuing education credit.

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 1.0 Category 1 credits for completing this activity. 

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.

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

Judith Jacobi, PharmD, BCCCP, MCCM
Lebanon, Indiana, USA
Disclosures: Advisory Board – Pfizer Hospital Products Division

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

Christa Schorr, DNP, MSN, RN, FCCM
Clinical Nurse Scientist
Cooper Hospital University Medical Center
Camden, New Jersey, 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

Judith Jacobi, PharmD, BCCCP, MCCM
Lebanon, Indiana, USA
Disclosures: Advisory Board – Pfizer Hospital Products Division 

Christa Schorr, DNP, MSN, RN, FCCM
Clinical Nurse Scientist
Cooper Hospital University Medical Center
Camden, New Jersey, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose