Release date: 8/23/2023
Reviewed and renewed: 5/30/2024
Expiration date: 6/1/2025
Activity Overview
This CE activity will define implicit bias and provide the learner with an understanding of how implicit bias negatively impacts access to care, treatment, and patient outcomes. In addition, strategies to remedy the negative impact of implicit bias and reduce disparities in healthcare access and delivery also will be discussed.
Target Audience
This activity is designed for an audience of physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners and other healthcare professionals.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of the educational activity, participants should be able to:
- Identify implicit bias and how it impacts access to care, treatment, and patient outcomes.
- Summarize strategies to remedy the negative impact of implicit bias and reduce disparities in access to, and delivery of, health care services.
Criteria for Success
To obtain a certificate of completion, a score of 80% or better on the post-test is required. Please proceed with the activity until you have successfully completed this program, answered all test questions, completed the post-test and evaluation, and have received a digital copy of your certificate. You must participate in the entire activity to receive credit. If you have questions about this activity, please contact AKH Inc. at [email protected].
CE credit provided by AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare.
In support of improving patient care, AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 1.0 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.
Physicians
AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians
AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare designates this continuing education activity for 1.0 contact hour.
Nurses
Credit being awarded: 1.0 ANCC contact hour
Physician Associates
AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare has been authorized by the American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 1.0 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. Approval is valid until 6/1/2026. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
Nurse Practitioners
AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is accredited by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners as an approved provider of nurse practitioner continuing education. Provider number: 030803. This activity is approved for 1.0 contact hour (which includes 0 hour(s) of pharmacology).
Dentists
AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at ADA.org/CERP.
AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare designates this activity for 1.0 continuing education credit.
Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider, or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at ADA.org/CERP.
Psychologists
Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibly for the content of the programs.
Social Workers
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. AKH Inc. Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.0 continuing education credit.
New York State Social Work
AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work
as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers. #SW-0233.
Awarded credit: 1.0 contact hour(s).
Dietitians
Athletic Trainers
AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare (BOC AP#: JA0007034) is approved by the Board of Certification, Inc. to provide continuing education to Athletic Trainers (ATs). This program is eligible for a maximum of 1.0 Category A hours/CEUs. ATs should claim only those hours actually spent in the educational program.
Commercial Support
There is no commercial support for this activity.
Faculty
Broc Pollinger, MSW, LSW, OSW-C
Planners and Reviewers
- Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, VP, Healthcare Continuing Education and Operations
- Bernadette Marie Makar, MSN, APRN, BC, NP-C, Nurse Reviewer
- Dorothy Duffy, PharmD – Pharmacy Reviewer
- Donna Purcell, PsyD – Psychology Reviewer
Disclosures
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.
All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.
It is the policy of AKH Inc. to ensure independence, balance, objectivity, scientific rigor, and integrity in all of its continuing education activities. The author must disclose to the participants any significant relationships with ineligible companies whose products or devices may be mentioned in the activity or with the commercial supporter of this continuing education activity. Identified conflicts of interest are mitigated by AKH prior to accreditation of the activity. AKH planners and reviewers have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Disclosure of Unlabeled Use and Investigational Product
This educational activity may include discussion of uses of agents that are investigational and/or unapproved by the FDA. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.
Disclaimer
This course is designed solely to provide the healthcare professional with information to assist in his/her practice and professional development and is not to be considered a diagnostic tool to replace professional advice or treatment. The course serves as a general guide to the healthcare professional, and therefore, cannot be considered as giving legal, nursing, medical, or other professional advice in specific cases. AKH Inc. specifically disclaim responsibility for any adverse consequences resulting directly or indirectly from information in the course, for undetected error, or through participant’s misunderstanding of the content.
