Caring for Critically Ill Pediatric Patients
Providing the pharmacists with a basic clinical understanding of pediatric critical care topics and the literature regarding medication recommendations will allow them to clinically evaluate pediatric critical care medication orders.
Target Audience
Pharmacist
Learning Objectives
Objective #1: Describe common pediatric critical care topics
Objective #2: Discuss literature regarding pediatric critical care pharmacology and medication recommendations
Objective #3: Recognize differences between clinical monitoring of pediatric patients vs adult patients
Objective #4: Identify areas within Epic to assist with clinical monitoring of pediatric patients
Objective #5: Evaluate the electronic medical record of pediatric patients to provide safe patient care
Providing the pharmacists with a basic clinical understanding of pediatric critical care topics and the literature regarding medication recommendations will allow them to clinically evaluate pediatric critical care medication orders.
Lindsey Stramara, PharmD
In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
This knowledge-based activity provides 1.0 contact hours of continuing pharmacy education credit.
Available Credit
- 1.00 ACPE PharmacyThe UPMC Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a Provider of continuing pharmacy education.