CICU 2025 RN Skills 11/04/25

November 4, 2025

Annual Professional Development opportunity for CICU RNs.  This year's sessions will focus on Moral Distress, Neurodevelopment of the Neonate, and a simulation event for patient decompensation including ECPR.

Target Audience

Nurses

Learning Objectives

1. Nurses will explore the moral implications and ethical considerations in complex clinical scenarios in pediatric critical care. 

2. Nurses will learn and demonstrate the ability to properly position neonates and infants in order to support their neurodevelopmental growth. 

3. Nurses will simulate a patient decompensating to the point of cardiac arrest and collaborate interprofessionally to perform an ECPR ECMO deployment. They will identify common risk factors for cardiac arrest, prepare the patient room with all necessary equipment, perform CPR when necessary, and facilitate an ECMO deployment.

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 3.00 ANCC
    Children’s National Hospital will provide 3.00 Nursing Contact Hours for this Live activity.
  • 3.00 Participation
    Successful completion of this continuing education activity.
Course opens: 
10/12/2025
Course expires: 
12/14/2025
Event starts: 
11/04/2025 - 8:00am EST
Event ends: 
11/04/2025 - 3:00pm EST
Rating: 
0

Acknowledgement of Financial and In-Kind Commercial Support 

No financial or in-kind commercial support was received for this educational activity. 

Speaker(s)

Leah Arold, MSN RN CPN CCRN

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Justine Fortkiewicz, MSN, RN, PMHNP-BC, NPD-BC, CCRN, CHSE

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Mandana O'Donnell, PT, DPT, PCS

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Cara Pleau, MSN, RN, CCRN

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Children’s National Hospital. Children’s National Hospital 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. Children’s National Hospital Accreditation Provider# 4008362.

Available Credit

  • 3.00 ANCC
    Children’s National Hospital will provide 3.00 Nursing Contact Hours for this Live activity.
  • 3.00 Participation
    Successful completion of this continuing education activity.
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