Critical Care Societies Collaborative Joint Session: Navigating Critical Care Workforce and Workplace Challenges: Realities and Solutions

Monday, January 22, 2024

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM MT

Location: North-132

CE: 1.0

Concurrent Session Moderator(s)

Vinay Nadkarni, MD, MS, FCCM (he/him/his)

Professor, Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pediatrics
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, CHOP
Media, Pennsylvania, United States

This session will focus on current workforce issues, including an analysis of the workforce development pipeline and strategies for addressing issues faced by clinicians, covering a range of topics, including violence in the ICU, post-COVID-19 challenges, and the sustainment of healthy work environments. Leaders from the Critical Care Societies Collaborative, which comprises SCCM, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, American College of Chest Physicians, and American Thoracic Society, will lead a discussion with speakers and audience about these challenges and how the various organizations are supporting their members in addressing workforce issues.

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Learning Objectives:

Describe the current challenges facing the critical care workforce, such as staffing, violence, and healthy work environments
Appraise the ICU workforce pipeline and how it will affect future healthcare needs
Identify three potential mitigation approaches to address emerging workforce challenges

Presentations:

Critical Care Workforce Pipeline: Will a Sufficient Number of New Clinicians Be Joining Us in the ICU?
Violence Against Clinicians in the ICU
Healthy Work Environments: Nurse Perspective
Healthy Work Environments: Physician Perspective