Focus Areas (Professional Caring & Ethical Practice)

• Advocacy: Patient rights, speaking up for safety, end-of-life preferences and honoring advance directives.
• Ethics: Autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice, confidentiality and moral distress in the ICU.
• Diversity and Inclusion: Culturally responsive care, bias awareness and equitable access to resources.
• Clinical Inquiry and EBP: Using research, guidelines and quality data to improve outcomes.
• Collaboration and Communication: Interprofessional rounds, conflict resolution and handoff safety.
• Leadership and Systems Thinking: Safety culture, event reporting, QI methods and mentoring at the bedside.