Accredited continuing education (ACE) release date: April 3, 2023
SCCM Product Code: LEAD_23_OD
ACE expiration date: December 31, 2024
Estimated time for activity completion: 6.5 hours

• Windows
• Mac

1. Demonstrate ways to improve a diverse team's dynamics and effectiveness.
2. Outline how to create and expand a professional network or incorporate a mentoring relationship.
3. Illustrate how to write a business plan
4. Discuss how to incorporate quality improvement activities into daily practice.
5. Discuss tools and skills to enhance non-clinical career development.

• Advanced Practice Nurses
• Anesthesiologists
• Clinical Nurse Specialists
• Nurses
• Nurse Educators
• Nurse Managers
• Pharmacists
• Physicians
• Physician Assistants
• Respiratory Care Practitioners
• Surgeons
• Research Scientists

Self-directed course covering the professional development and leadership topics to help professionals develop their skills and provide resources for their leadership.

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
• Professionalism

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 6.5 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 Leadership and Management Skills to Enhance your Professional Role Online activity has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 8181, for up to 6.5 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 6.5 contact hours of continuing education credit.
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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 6.5 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.
• 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:
Marilyn N. Bulloch, PharmD, BCPS, SPP, FCCM
Associate Clinical Professor and Director of Strategic Operations
Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
Speakers Bureau - Genetech

Ryan C. Maves, MD, FCCM
Professor of Medicine and Anesthesiology
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Consultant – Trauma Insights, LLC, EMD Serono; Researcher – AiCuris, Sound Pharmaceuticals

Heather Meissen, DNP, ACNP, CCRN, FCCM
Emory Healthcare
Fayetteville, Georgia, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Ndidi L. Musa, MD, FCCM
Physician
Seattle Children's Hospital
Seattle, Washington, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Babak Sarani, MD, FACS, FCCM
Professor of Surgery and Emergency Medicine
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA
Consultant – Acumed, LLC, Belmont

Roshni Sreedharan, MD, FASA, FCCM
Anesthesiologist Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Faculty:
Vishal Bakshi, PA-C, FCCM
Emory Healthcare Crawford Long Hospital
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Todd Dorman, MD, MCCM
Johns Hopkins University Turner 17
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Rob Grabenkort, PA, MMSc, FCCM
Emory University
Altana, Georgia, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Mojdeh Heavner, BCCCP, BCPS, PharmD
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Judith Jacobi, PharmD, BCCCP, MCCM
Visante, Inc.
St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Scientific Advisory Board: Pfizer

Joshua B. Kayser, MD, MPH, MBE, FCCM
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Lynn Kelso, DNP, FCCM
UK College of Nursing
Lexington, Kentucky, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Jarone Lee, MD, MPH, FCCM
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Consultant: Butterfly Network, Inc.; Board Member/Officer/Trustee: Health Tech Without Borders, Inc.

Derek S. Wheeler, MD, FCCM
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital
Chicago, Illinois, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Sergio Zanotti-Cavazzoni, MD, FCCM
Sound Physicians
Tacoma, Washington, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose