Pediatric Emergency Medicine Skills Course for Registered Nurses - April 10, 2025

April 10, 2025

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
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  • 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 [email protected]
Course summary
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 Education
    This activity is designated for 7.00 continuing education credits.
Course opens: 
04/01/2024
Course expires: 
04/10/2026
Event starts: 
04/10/2025 - 7:45am EDT
Event ends: 
04/10/2025 - 4:00pm EDT
Cost:
$200.00

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 

 

Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware
1600 Rockland Rd
Wilmington, DE
United States

This course will be held in the 3rd floor lecture hall, classrooms, and simulation center of Nemours Children’s Hospital

 

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 Education
    This activity is designated for 7.00 continuing education credits.

Price

Cost:
$200.00
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