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ForwardPediatric ICU Education Boot Camp 8.5.2025
Every PICU staff nurse will be attending (1) of the (8) offerings of an 8-hour educational boot camp. Our Nursing Education Boot Camp is designed to deliver a high-impact, hands-on learning experience that strengthens clinical competence, fosters professional development, and promotes safe, evidence-based nursing practice. The primary objectives are: Enhance Clinical Competency: Equip nurses with up-to-date knowledge and practical skills in core areas such as patient assessment, medication administration, wound care, and emergency response. Promote Critical Thinking and Decision-Making: Strengthen nurses’ ability to prioritize care, make sound clinical judgments, and respond effectively in complex patient care scenarios. Improve Communication and Teamwork: Foster interprofessional collaboration through role-playing and communication skills training, emphasizing patient safety and coordinated care
Target Audience
Registered Nurses
Learning Objectives
After completing this course, the learner will be able to:
- Recognize and manage pediatric trauma emergencies with High-fidelity trauma simulations, case studies, skill stations (e.g., EVD insertion, licox management)
- Apply principles of care in pediatric organ transplantation
- Demonstrate high-performance pediatric CPR and post–cardiac arrest care
- Interpret and respond to early warning signs of clinical deterioration with rapid response role-play, interactive quiz (e.g., Jeopardy game, escape room challenge)
- Incorporate trauma-informed care practices in pediatric critical care with family-centered care scenarios, role-play with standardized patients
- Implement quality improvement strategies to enhance patient outcomes by interpretation of PICU nursing report card data
- Manage complex medication regimens in critically ill pediatric patients by simulation with medication errors
- Collaborate effectively in interdisciplinary pediatric critical care teams by communication drills, simulation-based interprofessional scenarios, structured debriefings led by CSIM trained RN leader
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 8.0 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
- 8.00 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 8.00 Attendance