Heart Transplant & Management: Pediatric Considerations August 2025

August 18, 2025

Nurses in the cardiac intensive and acute care units have a practice/knowledge gap to caring for pediatric heart patients. This course will review physiology for heart transplant, transplant medications including saftey concerns and pediatric leveling for transplant listing.

Target Audience

RN

Learning Objectives

Followint this course:

  1. Learners will be able to identify types of congenital and acquired heart disease resulting in the need for a pediatric heart transplant.
  2. Learners will be able to describe common nursing care and protection associated with pediatric heart transplant medications.
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.00 Attendance
Course opens: 
08/18/2025
Course expires: 
09/01/2025
Event starts: 
08/18/2025 - 8:00am EDT
Event ends: 
08/18/2025 - 4:00pm EDT
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UPMC: Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
United States

Kayla Jubic DNP, RN, CCRN, CBC

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 1.0 contact hour.

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

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