May is National Critical Care Awareness and Recognition Month
Wear Blue on Friday, May 19 to Show Your Support
Celebrate with
the Society in May to recognize your colleagues and spread the
word about critical care!
The month of May marks
National Critical Care Awareness and Recognition Month. The Society
of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), partnering with the American
Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), American College
of Chest Physicians (ACCP), American Thoracic Society (ATS) and the American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC), recognizes the devoted professionals
whose compassion and dedication to the care of the critically
ill and injured has made a difference in the lives
of patients and their families.
Read the news release about National Critical Care Awareness and Recognition Month!
Here are a few ways you can become actively involved
in celebrating National Critical Care Awareness and Recognition
Month:
- Wear blue! Wear blue on Friday, May 19 to show your support of
National Critical Care Awareness and Recognition Month.
- The Society of Critical Care Medicine has a wide range of blue merchandise available, including shirts, neck ties and mugs, that will allow you to show your support of both critical care and the Society.
To view the entire selection, click here.
- For a "do it yourself" option, visit a local fabric store and purchase blue ribbon to pin on your team members.
- Hang Posters. Download a PDF of the National Critical Care Awareness and Recognition Month poster to hang throughout your hospital.
- Recognize members of your critical care team. Take
a moment to praise your fellow colleagues for their hard work
and commitment in caring for the critically ill and injured.
- Teach patients and families about critical care. Patients
and families are often confused about critical care, what critical
care practitioners do, and the ICU setting. In addition to displaying
and distributing SCCM's Patient and Family Support Brochures (available
from the SCCM
Bookstore), also post SCCM's Membership Poster.
- Give the gift of SCCM Membership to one of your colleagues.
Critical care practitioners will experience the many
benefits of SCCM membership, such as a free subscription to Critical
Care Medicine, discounts to SCCM meetings, publications
and products, and more, through your gift. Visit the Membership
Web page to give a one-year membership to one of your colleagues.
- Make a donation to the Critical Care Education and Research
Foundation (CCERF). You can make a donation in honor
or memory of a key mentor or critical care influence in your life,
or you can designate your donation to a specific patient safety
initiative. To view all options, visit the Support
SCCM Web page.
- Be a mentor for young critical care professionals. Encourage
those interested in medicine to enter the exciting field of critical
care. You can also make a $100 donation to the CCERF
to help sponsor a fellow's one-year membership in SCCM, thereby
encouraging residents to specialize in critical care.
- Tap into the many resources SCCM has to offer:
- Improving Your ICU: Tips for Better
Care - This brochure highlights ways you can improve
the care you provide to critically ill patients and outlines
ways in which your ICU can gain media recognition in your community.
- Train Non-critical Care Professionals in Your Organization
- Through SCCM's Fundamental
Critical Care Support (FCCS) program, healthcare professionals
not trained in critical care can learn the basics of caring
for critically ill or injured patients during the first 24 hours.
Contact SCCM at +1 847 827-6869 for more information on sponsoring
the course at your institution.
- The Society offers a number of educational and administrative
resources for improving your ICU. Visit the SCCM
Bookstore to browse the Society's extensive offering of
publications, products, and electronic media, such as:
- Patient and Family Support Brochures
- Guidelines/Practice Parameters Notebook
- Improving Care in the ICU
- Resource Guide - Intensivist Based ICU
- Summit on ICU Quality and Cost
- Coding and Billing for Critical Care
- Critical Care Unit Design & Furnishing
- ICU Design Video and Booklet
- 2010 Critical Care, Critical Time
- You and the ICU CD-ROM
- Clinical Practice and Administrative Guidelines CD-ROM
- Talking Money with Administrators CD-ROM
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