Target audience: Newly licensed registered nurses

For more information, contact Julie Racicot via email at julie.racicot@baystatehealth.org.

Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:

1| Reflect upon the use and application of nursing resources like Clinical Key
2| Describe the availability and functionality of the Baystate Health Library Services
3| Define DEI
4| Describe the differences between health equality and health equity
5| Describe the way infection is spread
6| Describe those interventions to reduce and/or eliminate the spread of infection.

Faculty

Bridget Gunn, MSLS, MS, AHIP
Information & Knowledge Services Librarian
Baystate Health

Billie-Jo Warrick, BSM, CDP®, IICDP
Diversity & Inclusion Consultant
Baystate Medical Center

Sarah Freeman, MBA, BSN, RN-BC
Nurse Manager, Transition to Practice
Baystate Medical Center

Julie Racicot, MSN, RN, NPD-BC, CCRN
Nurse Educator, Nurse Residency Program
Baystate Medical Center

Stacey Peters, BSN, RN, CPN
Infection Control Practitioner
Baystate Medical Center

Faculty Disclosure

The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education (CE) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options. Any relevant financial relationships are mitigated prior to the educational activity.

None of the planners or faculty for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. 

Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, Baystate Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. 

Nurses
Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 3.75 contact hour(s).
Nurses should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.