PEARS 02/22/2024

Pittsburgh, PA US
February 22, 2024

This course was designed to educate new and experienced nurses struggling to identify seriously ill children in need of immediate interventions. This includes children suffering from respiratory distress, shock, and cardiac arrest.

Target Audience

Registered Nurses 

Learning Objectives

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

  • Perform high quality CPR
  • Identify patients requiring immediate interventions
  • Identify pediatric emergencies, including cardiac arrest, respiratory distress, and shock
  • Demonstrate patient reassessment after applying interventions
  • Demonstrate effective team dynamics
  • Demonstrate initial stabilization of a seriously ill and injured child, including cardiac arrest, respiratory distress, and shock 
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 4.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 4.00 Attendance
Course opens: 
02/22/2024
Course expires: 
03/07/2024
Event starts: 
02/22/2024 - 8:00am EST
Event ends: 
02/22/2024 - 2:00pm EST
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.

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 4.0 contact hour(s).

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

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