Pediatric Emergency Medicine Skills Course for Emergency Physicians - April 16, 2026
This is an intensive one day course designed for Delaware EMSC Emergency Department Registered Nurses who would like more experience in managing pediatric emergency scenarios. We will provide hands on training in critical pediatric assessment and procedure skills. This will include pediatric specific triage techniques, airway management, vascular access, immobilization, and resuscitation procedures. Using high fidelity simulation, this course will also focus on the crisis resource management skills needed to successfully manage a critically ill pediatric patient.
Target Audience
Emergency Physicians
Program Fees:
Physicians: $350.00
Learning Objectives
· Discuss priorities of care for the pediatric patient
· List unique features of the pediatric airway
· Use appropriate airway adjuncts to secure a pediatric airway
· Review management of pediatric sickle cell emergencies
· Describe the management of neonatal emergencies
· Describe techniques to obtain vascular access in neonatal and pediatric patients
· Identify indicators of illness and injury in the pediatric patient
· Use appropriate medications in pediatric resuscitation
· Discuss the newest recommendations for advanced life support in pediatric patients
· Manage complex children in the Emergency Department
· Develop an approach to common and unusual pediatric illnesses encountered in the Emergency Department
Nemours Children’s Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) at (302)651-6719 or [email protected]
7:45 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m. Welcome and Course Overview
8:10 a.m. Pediatric Sickle Cell Emergencies
8:50 a.m. Introduction to Skills
9:00 a.m. Pediatric Skills Stations
10:30 a.m. BREAK
10:45 a.m. Pediatric Skills Stations
12:15 p.m. LUNCH
12:45 p.m. Overview of Simulation Sessions
1:00 p.m. Pediatric Simulation Sessions
2:00 p.m. BREAK
2:15 p.m. Pediatric Simulation Sessions
3:45 p.m. Wrap-up and Questions
4:00 p.m. Adjourn
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Skills Course for Emergency Physicians - 04-16-2026.pdf
This course will be held in the 3rd floor lecture hall, classrooms, and simulation center of Nemours Children’s Hospital
Maria Carmen Diaz, MD, FAAP, FACEP
Kimberly Dawson, MSN, RN, CPEN, TCRN, CHSE, EMT
Tabitha Guthrie, NREMT-B
Francis Hildwine, BS, NRP
Nicholas Kalbach, MD
Susan Kelly, MD, MPH, FAAP
Andrea Mancinelli
Elaine Marchese, BSN, RN
Robin Miller
Alexa Moran
Elysha Pifko, MD
Aaron Jefthy Yee, MD
Accreditation: In support of improving patient care, Nemours Children’s Health 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.
Nemours Children’s designates this live activity for a maximum of 7.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure: No one in control of content for this educational activity has 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.
*As an accredited provider, Nemours must ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in its educational activities. In accordance with the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, all planners, teachers, and authors involved in the development of CME content are required to disclose their relevant financial relationships that might be germane to the content of the activity. An individual has a relevant financial relationship if he or she has a financial relationship in any amount occurring in the last 24 months with an ineligible company** whose products or services are discussed in the CME activity content over which the individual has control. Nemours has policies/processes in place to mitigate relevant financial relationships. All relevant relationships have been mitigated.
**An ineligible company is defined as an entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. For specific examples of ineligible companies visit accme.org/standards.
Available Credit
- 7.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
In support of improving patient care, Nemours Children’s Health 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.
Nemours Children’s Health designates this activity for a maximum of 7.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 7.00 Continuing EducationThis activity is designated for 7.00 continuing education credits.

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