Pediatric Emergency Medicine Skills Course for Registered Nurses
This is an intensive one day course designed for Emergency Department Registered Nurses who would like more experience 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
Registered Nurses
Program Fees: $200.00
Learning Objectives
- Discuss the initial and ongoing assessment of a pediatric patient including system specific interventions
- Discuss priorities of care in pediatrics
- Identify potential indicators of child abuse and neglect
- List unique aspects of examining a child with suspected abuse
- List unique features of the pediatric airway
- Describe techniques to obtain vascular access in neonatal and pediatric patients
- Identify indicators of illness and injury in the pediatric patient
- List appropriate medications used 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
- Contact information: If you have any questions about this course, please contact Nemours Children’s Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) at (302)651-6719 or NICE@nemours.org
Additional Information
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7:45 am - Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 am - Welcome and Course Overview
8:10 am - Getting Comfortable with the Uncomfortable
8:50 am - Introduction to Skills
9:00 am - Pediatric Skills Stations
10:30 am - BREAK
10:45 am - Pediatric Skills Stations
12:15 pm - LUNCH
12:45 pm - Overview of Simulation Sessions
1:00 pm - Pediatric Simulation Sessions
2:00 pm - BREAK
2:15 pm - Pediatric Simulations Sessions
3:45 pm - Wrap-up and Questions
4:00 pm - Adjourn
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
Jennifer Cooper, BSN, RN, SANE-P
Kimberly Dawson, MSN, RN, CPEN, TCRN, CHSE, EMT
Tabitha Guthrie, NREMT-B
Kate Mann, BSN, RN, CPN, CCRN
Elaine Marchese, BSN, RN
Kevin Nusspickel, MSN, APRN, CPNP-AC, CCRN
Andrea Repine, MSN, APRN, CPNP
Heather Sobolewski, MSN, RN-BC, CHSE
Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by Pennsylvania State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Available Credit
- 7.00 ANCC Nursing Contact Hour
Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by Pennsylvania State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
This activity is designated for 7.00 contact hours.
- 7.00 Continuing EducationThis activity is designated for 7.00 continuing education credits.
Price
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