2024 CPHON Review Course - Virtual Learning

Pittsburgh, PA US

In order to claim your credits, you must watch the required videos, complete the online quiz with a passing score of 83%, complete the course evaluation, and claim your credits. 

This course was designed because nurses who take this review course will be better prepared to sit for the CPHON exam certification. Having certified nurses on the unit will provide more resources to the staff who perform direct care and encourage those certified nurses to educate their peers on the content learned in the course.

Target Audience

Registered Nurses 

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, the learner will be able to:

  • Identify the most common pediatric malignancies.
  • State characteristics of common solid tumors in children
  • Identify common symptoms of brain tumors.
  • State characteristics of neuroblastoma tumors in children
  • Verbalize implications for the transition to end of life care
  • Describe important principles of pharmacokinetics in chemotherapy administration
  • Verbalize the impact of research on the survival of children with cancer
  • Identify the side effects associated with radiation therapy, as they relate to radiation field and age of child undergoing radiation.
  • Describe the differences between autologous and allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT), and the potential complications associated with each modality.
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 6.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 6.00 Attendance
Course opens: 
01/18/2024
Course expires: 
12/31/2024
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
4401 Penn Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
United States

Conflict of Interest Disclosure:

No planners, members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Accreditation Statement:

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh 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.

The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 6.0 contact hours.

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.  

Available Credit

  • 6.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 6.00 Attendance
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