Schedule at a Glance
Please note that all times are listed in Eastern Time and that the schedule is subject to change.
Stay tuned for more details and our printed schedule of events for the SPN 36th Annual Conference.
Monday, April 27
8:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
Pre-Conference Workshops*
*Pre-registration and an additional fee is required. You may only attend one Pre-Conference Workshop.
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
First-Time Attendee Networking Session (1.0 NCPD Contact Hour)
Session Description: New to the SPN conference? Join this panel discussion and networking session geared towards first-time attendees to start your conference experience off right! You'll hear directly from select SPN volunteer leaders on how to maximize your conference experience and the benefit of SPN membership. It’s the perfect opportunity to meet new colleagues and discuss current pediatric health topics. Walk away with the tools and connections you need for a bright, successful week!
11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Full Conference Networking Session (1.0 NCPD Contact Hour)
Session Description: Come for the games, stay for the networking! The session will start with multiple rounds of fun nursing trivia. After the trivia game, stay to network with fellow conference attendees. The trivia winners will leave with a prize, but everyone will leave with new peer contacts and an expanded professional circle.
1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Opening Session: Empowered, Caring, and Engaged: A Roadmap for Today’s Nursing Workforce (1.0 NCPD Contact Hour)
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Concurrent Session I (60 minutes) (1.0 NCPD Contact Hour)
Presenters: Kaitlin Pounders, MSN, RNC-NIC, C-ELBW, NEA-BC, CPPS; Karen Wilson, MSN, APRN, ACCNS-P, CPEN; Alex Surgalski, BSN, RN, CCRN; Sarah Brennan, BSN, RN, CNML, CPN
Session Description: This session examines how intentional gamification through an Escape Room, compared with traditional PowerPoint teaching, improved engagement, competitiveness, and collaboration in implementing a new evidence-based peripheral IV guideline at a pediatric academic medical center. Results show 76% of participants prefer the gamified format to support hospital-wide practice change.
Session Track: Education
Presenters: Danielle Lindberg, MSN, RN, CPN; Sarah Kalina, DNP, RN, CPN
Session Description: Can multidisciplinary collaboration reduce moral distress in pediatric oncology nurses following patient deaths? Explore one hospital's journey in developing supportive strategies through a multidisciplinary team to help nurses process grief, build resilience, and navigate the ethical challenges of repeated loss in pediatric cancer care.
Session Track: Quality Improvement
Presenters: Gordon M. Gartrell, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, CENP, CCRN, CEN, CPEN, TCRN; Colbie Baird, BSN, RN, CCRN-P
Session Description: This session introduces PICU PALS as a peer mentorship program designed to support graduate nurses in the high-acuity pediatric critical-care setting. By pairing new nurses with trained peer mentors for non-evaluative emotional and professional support, the program significantly improved 12-month retention, reduced clinical anxiety, and fostered a more inclusive, supportive unit culture.
Session Track: Education
Presenters: Heather M. Kennedy, PhD, APRN, PCNS-BC, CNRN, CWOCN, CCRN-P
Session Description: This session will present research illustrating the impact of stress and social determinants of health risk on perceived social support for family caregivers of medically complex children. Learners will have the chance to brainstorm about how to pave a brighter future for these families by linking risks to feasible interventions.
Session Track: Research
3:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
Concurrent Session IIA (30 minutes) (0.5 NCPD Contact Hour)
Presenters: Bailey Fleming, BSN, RN, CPN; Ashley Kovacev, MSN, RN, CPN; Lori Hatcher, BSN, RN
Session Description: Discover how our pediatric medical center navigated the planning, implementation, and anticipated go-live of a Virtual Nursing (ViRN) program. Hear practical strategies, lessons learned, and key metrics as we share our journey to optimize nurse workflow, documentation, and family-centered care through virtual nursing innovation.
Session Track: Clinical Practice
Presenters: Nicole Claybon, MHA, BSN, RN, CPEN; Ashley Lee, BSN, RN
Session Description: Learn how a pediatric ED improved sickle cell pain management by reducing time-to-analgesia through direct rooming, a nurse-initiated verbal order set, and intranasal fentanyl for IV delays. This session shares workflow changes, measurable outcomes, and strategies to improve satisfaction, reduce admissions, and sustain timely, compassionate care.
Session Track: Quality Improvement
Presenters: Julie Ann Marshall, DNP, RN, CCM, CNE, PED-BC
Session Description: This DNP project implemented nurse-led bedside rounds (NLBR) on a pediatric unit to improve nurse self-efficacy and patient outcomes. Using evidence-based strategies and a collaborative framework, the intervention led to increased nurse confidence, enhanced family-centered care, and measurable improvements in safety, satisfaction, experience, and quality outcomes.
Session Track: Leadership & Management
Presenters: Elizabeth Flasch, PhD, APNP, PNP-PC
Session Description: This session explores the alignment between SPN Core Competencies and AACN Essentials, offering evidence to guide pediatric nursing curriculum design. Nurse educators will gain practical insights into integrating the Pediatric Nursing Excellence (PNE) Model into competency-based education to enhance practice readiness and support development of competent, specialty-prepared pediatric nurses.
Session Track: Research
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Concurrent Session IIB (30 minutes) (0.5 NCPD Contact Hour)
Presenters: Catina Gordon-Oates, MSN, RN, BSBA, PED-BC, NE-BC; Courtney Vial, BSN, RN, NIC-BC
Session Description: This session will explore Operation CIAO - a structured model for twice daily huddles that drives innovation, improves access, strengthens team engagement, and enhances the patient experience through transparency and real-time decision-making. This session is geared towards nurse leaders, quality improvement professionals, and frontline clinicians who are focused on enhancing patient access, strengthening team-based care, and improving care connections across inpatient to ambulatory settings.
Session Track: Quality Improvement
Presenters: Wendy Benton, BSN, RN; Aubrey Blackburn, MSN, RN, CPHQ, CSSBB
Session Description: Learn how a large pediatric ED chart review revealed that one in four children meeting hypoglycemia criteria actually had pseudohypoglycemia. This session covers the impact of poor perfusion on glucose measurement accuracy, implications for reducing unnecessary interventions, and recommendations for updating clinical protocols in emergency pediatric care.
Session Track: Research
Presenters: Dr. Jordan M. Herring, DNP, RN, CPN; Dr. Kaitlin Bailey, DNP, RN
Session Description: This session presents a DNP-led project aimed at improving pediatric and women's care nurses' knowledge, skills, and confidence when caring for sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth. Attendees will gain inclusive communication strategies, explore implementation outcomes, and learn how nurse-led education can foster affirming, family-centered care across pediatric and women's health settings.
Session Track: Quality Improvement
Presenters: Catherine LaPoint, MSN, RN, CBC, CPN
Session Description: Learn how to utilize simulation to maximize clinical experience for undergraduate nursing students by incorporating four different pediatric scenarios within one simulation. This simulation will stimulate critical thinking, pediatric assessment skills, professionalism and improves communication skills. Retention of the information taught within the simulation has been demonstrated with a score increase on the course specific standardized exam.
Session Track: Education
5:00 p.m. - 6:45 p.m.
Opening Reception in Exhibit Hall and Poster Viewing
Tuesday, April 28
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Concurrent Session III (60 minutes) (1.0 NCPD Contact Hour)
Presenters: Diana Lulgjuraj, PhD, RN, CPN; Lila Leu, BSN, RN
Session Description: Explore how a pediatric hospital used creative, low-cost teambuilding to address nurse incivility. This session shares findings from a 14-month study, highlighting the impact of nurse-led initiatives on workplace culture and civility. Walk away with practical strategies to foster respect, collaboration, and team cohesion across care settings.
Session Track: Research
Presenters: Masha Jiles, RN, BSN, CPN; Janess Martin, MSN, RN; Lauren Drake, BSN, RN, CPN; Brooke Callahan, RN, BSN, PED-BC
Session Description: Join the 2025 cohort of the SPN Leadership Skills Development Program as they showcase the projects they developed and implemented in their organizations as part of their program.
Session Track: Leadership & Management
Presenters: Diane Gillooly, DNP, APN, RN-BC; Daniela Moscarella, DNP, APN, CPNP-PC, CCRN-k
Session Description: Transform the large classroom into an interactive, high-energy learning environment! This session explores how gamification, through activities like clay modeling, bingo, role-play, and escape rooms, boosts engagement, bridges generational learning needs, and improves outcomes. Discover practical strategies to captivate Gen Z students while enhancing participation and satisfaction.
Session Track: Education
Presenters: Jennifer Ellison, PhD, MBA, RN, CPHON
Session Description: This session addresses the gap surrounding parents experience and readiness for health care transition (HCT) by presenting a study examining HCT readiness in parents of adolescent and young adult (AYA) survivors of pediatric cancer and discussing implications of findings for parents of cancer survivors and other medically complex AYAs.
Session Track: Research
9:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
General Session: Q&A with Renee (1.0 NCPD Contact Hour)
10:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
Concurrent Session IVA (30-minute sessions) (0.5 NCPD Contact Hour)
Presenters: Chansey Pullen, BSN, RN; Lauren Kenny, CPNP-PC
Session Description: Pediatric chronic pain is a complex condition requiring a multidisciplinary approach as a more effective treatment than single-modality plans. Participants will learn combining coordinated care from diverse healthcare professionals, complementary therapies, and tailored lifestyle adjustments leads to greater pain relief, improved functioning, and enhanced quality of life.
Session Track: Clinical Practice
Presenters: Sarah McGraw, RN, DNP, FNP-C
Session Description: Pediatric nursing faculty utilized podcasting to reach Gen Z students. Hot topics, including vaccine hesitancy, social media and mental health, and child maltreatment, were covered in a 3-part series. Each episode featured a conversation with a clinical content expert. Following each episode, students participated in self-reflection and discussion.
Session Track: Education
Presenters: Julie Ann Marshall, DNP, RN, CCM, CNE, PED-BC
Session Description: Children and families state needle procedures as a source of pain and stress. This session focuses on the rollout of a needle pain mitigation bundle within a large freestanding children’s hospital enterprise. The bundle includes evidence-based interventions to decrease pain and distress during pediatric needle procedures.
Session Track: Evidence Based Practice
Presenters: Denni Wilson-Lowber, BSN, RN
Session Description: A trauma nurse coordinator identified a consumer knowledge gap related to microwaving water to prepare ramen noodles, leading to high rates of partial and full thickness burns. Nurse-driven education with the community about food preparation safety reduced partial and full thickness burns by 76%.
Session Track: Quality Improvement
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Concurrent Session IVB (30-minute sessions) (0.5 NCPD Contact Hour)
Presenters: Kristen Jackson, MSN, RN, CPN; Kristin Zick, MSN, RN
Session Description: When leaders listen to families, healing becomes a shared journey! Come and hear how nursing leaders improve caregiver satisfaction scores through intentional and consistent rounding with families, learn implementation strategies, and reflect on caregivers' need for great communication, teamwork, and validation by a leadership team.
Session Track: Quality Improvement
Presenters: Julie Gibbons, PhD, MSN, MPH, BSN, RN
Session Description: The presentation will include a review of the literature and guiding theoretical framework, results and implications for nursing practice and policy, discussion about confronting uncertainty around the school nurse role, reporting structures, and evidence-based guidelines to standardize expectations.
Session Track: Research
Presenters: Emily Park, BSN, RN CEN PEDS-BC; Hannah Folderauer, RN
Session Description: Explore how cross-training existing pediatric ED staff to provide structured, supportive care for psychiatric patients reduced boarding times, improved safety, and boosted staff confidence without adding new hires. Learn practical steps to enhance behavioral health care and ED flow using current resources.
Session Track: Quality Improvement
Presenters: Kaitlin Pounders, MSN, RNC-NIC, C-ELBW, NEA-BC, CPPS
Session Description: This session explores a leadership-driven educational intervention aimed at reducing serious harm from pediatric peripheral IV infiltrations and extravasations (PIVIEs). Through a back-to-basics training model, leaders improved knowledge, standardized practices, and accountability to reduce preventable harm.
Session Track: Leadership & Management
12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Lunch with Exhibitors and Poster Viewing
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
General Session — Poster Power Hour (1.0 NCPD Contact Hour)
Presenters: Jennifer Gadnai, MBA, BSN, RN; Celeste Calhoun, MSN, BSN, RN; Haley Bush, BSN, RN
Session Track: Quality Improvement
Presenters: Susan Jarosz, BSN, RN, CCRN, CNPT; Talia Skinner, BSN, RN, CCRN; Sarah Tomlinson, BSN, RN, CPN, CPHON
Session Track: Quality Improvement
Presenters: Katelyn Vogel, BSN, RN, CPN, CPHQ; Jessica Bordner, BSN, RN, RNC-NIC, LSSGB
Session Track: Quality Improvement
Presenters: Kate Kreidermacher, BSN, RN, CLC; Jeffrey Timm, MS, RN, PHN, NPD-BC
Session Track: Clinical Practice
2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Coffee Break with Exhibitors and Poster Viewing
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Concurrent Session V (15-minute sessions) (Quick Connects: Imagine and Innovate) (1.0 NCPD Contact Hour)
Presenters: Michelle High, MSN, RN, CNL, CPN
Session Description: Children assisted by invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) are medically complex, requiring continuous monitoring and skilled respiratory care. This research identifies the most common safety events reported by home nurses and highlights opportunities to reduce risks and address training gaps.
Session Track: Research
Presenters: Iva Ivanova, BSN RN; Hannah Reynardus, BRN RN CCRN
Session Description: Discover how clinical nurses are driving certification success through shared decision-making and front-line led initiatives that elevate professional practice and strengthen patient outcomes.
Session Track: Leadership & Management
Presenters: Paige Meyers, BSN, RN, CPN; Veronica S. Zielinski, MSN, RN, ACCNS-P, CPN
Session Description: This session describes how a pediatric neuroscience unit improved emergency preparedness through competitive skills training and high-fidelity simulations, enhancing confidence, teamwork, and early deterioration recognition.
Session Track: Education
Presenters: Kelsey Walsh, MSN, RN, CPN; Annie Tolliver, MSN, RN, CPN, NPD-BC
Session Description: Caring for pediatric patients is an around-the-clock job. During the night there are limited resources, lack of recognition, and reduced leadership connection. This session will explain evidence-based strategies and real-life applications to create a healthy work environment on the night shift.
Session Track: Leadership & Management
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Posters with Authors/Exhibit Hall Open (1.5 NCPD Contact Hours)
5:45 p.m. - 7:15 p.m.
PNE Reception
Event Description: You're Invited! Celebrate the Pediatric Nursing Certification Board's 50th Anniversary in the Center Ballroom at 5:00 p.m. on May 1st. Come celebrate with us as we honor our rich history, recognize the impact of pediatric nurse practitioners, and look forward to the future of the profession. Please RSVP to join the waitlist.
Wednesday, April 29
8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Concurrent Session VIA (30-minute sessions) (0.5 NCPD Contact Hour)
Presenters: Gordon M. Gartrell, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, CENP, CCRN, CPEN, CEN, TCRN; Colbie Baird, BSN, RN, CCRN-P
Session Description: This session explores the impact of Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) on healthcare staff well-being in a pediatric hospital. Findings revealed significant improvements in perceived anxiety and professional quality of life, particularly among nurses, supporting CISD as a valuable strategy to enhance staff support and retention in high-stress environments.
Session Track: Research
Presenters: Cherrylene Montano, BSN, MHA, CCRN, NE-BC, CENP; Caitlin Marion, DNP, MSN, RN, CPN, NPD-BC, CNE, CNEcl; Rachel Bostwick, BSN, RN
Session Description: This session will analyze how advanced stage skin injuries were reduced in the high-risk pediatric ECMO population through intentional rounding and education.
Session Track: Quality Improvement
Presenters: Allison Burgin, BSN, RN; Beverly Baugh, BSN, RNC-NIC
Session Description: Discover an ever-growing avenue of online, bedside education through a unit-specific website, allowing education to actually be in the patient room. This online platform provides an innovative strategy to better assure effective education and quality of care while increasing nursing autonomy, confidence, and resilience.
Session Track: Education
8:45 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.
Concurrent Session VIB (30-minute sessions) (0.5 NCPD Contact Hour)
Presenters: Lisa Myers, BSN, CPN; Michele Farley, MSN, NEA-BC, RNC-NIC
Session Description: Explore how transformational leadership and practical strategies empowered nightshift nurses, strengthened engagement, and improved safety and retention.
Session Track: Leadership & Management
Presenters: Katie Crowe, MSN, RN, CPN, PMH-BC, CNE
Session Description: Learn how one team streamlined NGT supply access, slashing retrieval time by 78% through centralization and workflow redesign, and how these strategies can be replicated.
Session Track: Quality Improvement
Presenters: Rebecca Kanaley, MS, RN, CPN, CNL; Hannah Thomas, MS, RN, PED-BC; Amy Scalise, MS, RN, PED-BC
Session Description: Pediatric procedures such as PIVs, NG tubes, and urinary catheterizations can be painful and distressing to children. A standardized guideline with three escalating levels, nonpharmacological support, targeted pain management, and anxiolysis, was developed. Standardized approaches reduce variability, increase use of newer agents, and improve caregiver satisfaction while minimizing patient distress.
Session Track: Clinical Practice
Presenters: Marcella Hinzman, MSN, RN, CEMSI-NRP, MLSO; Michelle Weber, MPH, MSN, RN, NPD-BC, CPN; Kelly Anderson, BSN, RN, CPN
Session Description: Participants will discover the structure, goals, and impact of a new nurse mentor program and explore ways to champion mentorship in their own organizations.
Session Track: Evidenced Based Practice
9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Concurrent VII (60-minute session) (1.0 NCPD Contact Hour)
Presenters: Catherine Julia Martinez, BSN, RN, CCRN; Samantha Koehler, BSN, RN, CPHON
Session Description: This session highlights a novel approach to providing bite-sized, simulation-based education for frontline staff during their shifts. Participants will learn how in situ simulation helps staff synthesize information, address knowledge gaps, and ensure safe, up-to-date patient care.
Session Track: Education
Presenters: Angie Rodick, BSN, RN, CPEN; Jennifer Vaughan, MSN, RN; Dr. Philip Ewing, MD
Session Description: Learn how a Provider in Triage (PIT) model reduced left without being seen rates, improved throughput, and enhanced patient experience in a high-volume pediatric emergency department.
Session Track: Quality Improvement
Presenters: Jennifer Lucke, DNP, RN, NPD-BC, CPN, CCRN; Jennifer Darcy, PhD, RN, PNP-BC, CNE
Session Description: Discover how increasing research mentorship created expanded collaboration, dissemination, and development of clinical and leadership research tracks within a pediatric hospital.
Session Track: Leadership & Management
Presenters: Daniela Moscarella, DNP, APN, CPNP-PC, PMHS, CCRN-k; Meghan Faulkner, RN, MSN, CPNP-AC
Session Description: Follow the case of a 2-year-old child with influenza A progressing to ECMO. Review risk factors, complications, global influenza data, and the role of vaccination in preventing severe pediatric outcomes.
Session Track: Clinical Practice
10:45 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Concurrent Session VIII (15-minute sessions) (Quick Connects: Imagine and Innovate) (1.0 NCPD Contact Hour)
Presenters: Emma Catherine Rader, MSN, RN; Carynne Sutton, BSN, RN; Ella Payne, BSN, RN
Session Description: This session evaluates a quality improvement initiative aimed at reducing pediatric medication errors caused by inaccurate weight documentation through targeted education and workflow reminders.
Session Track: Quality Improvement
Presenters: Rose Anne Dela Cruz, MSN, RN, CPN; Gene Mae Estoya, BSN, RN, CPN
Session Description: Learn implementation tactics to improve newborn thermoregulation compliance through staff involvement, collaboration, and barrier reduction to enhance safety and outcomes.
Session Track: Quality Improvement
Presenters: Corrie Lussier, MSN, RN, CPN, CNE; Emily Wyatt, MEd, BSN, RN, CPN
Session Description: Learn how development of a CLABSI Pre-Swarm process achieved a 100% reduction in CLABSI rates through multidisciplinary collaboration and workflow redesign.
Session Track: Quality Improvement
Presenters: Amy Wallace, BSN, RN, CPN
Session Description: Discover how a nursing Quality Practice Council partnered with pharmacy to reduce patient wait times through workflow changes, improving efficiency, communication, and satisfaction.
Session Track: Quality Improvement
11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Lunch
12:45 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions IX.A (30-minute sessions) (0.5 NCPD Contact Hour)
Presenters: Laura Pickford, MSN, RN CPN
Session Description: An effective hands-on training program on political advocacy improved nurses political astuteness and created a taskforce of nurses that can champion public policy change to advocate for improving patient outcomes and the advancement of the nursing profession.
Session Track: Advocacy
Presenters: Lyndsay Jerusha MacKay, PhD, MSN, RN
Session Description: Explore how parents of medically fragile infants build trust with nurses and why this trust is essential for Family-Centered Care. Learn eight practical strategies to strengthen nurse-parent partnerships, reduce parental stress, and support optimal outcomes for infants and families in pediatric inpatient settings.
Session Track: Research
Presenters: Astrid Sobotka, MSNL, BSN, RN, LSSGB; Denise Brown, MS, BSN, RN, CPN
Session Description: Learn about the journey a pediatric hospital took to reduce ED-to-Inpatient transfer times. Times went from a baseline of 79 to under 60 minutes through nurse collaboration, persistence, and shared ownership. Currently times have been below goal for the last eight months.
Session Track: Quality Improvement
Presenters: Ashley Owens, MSN-ed, RN, CPN, CNE
Session Description: This session will review orientation pathways for experienced new hire nurses. Orientation pathways allow for standardized goals and competencies while providing flexibility to meet the needs of the experienced nurse.
Session Track: Education
1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions IX.B (30-minute sessions) (0.5 NCPD Contact Hour)
Presenters: Krista Westbrook, MSN, RN, CPN
Session Description: Pediatric nurse residents face high stress and low resilience, risking burnout and attrition. Educators worked with new graduate nurses in both the critical care and acute care float pools to develop a tool to encourage peer-led discussions on resilience. The conversations challenged residents to reflect on their personal beliefs about resilience and to share the coping strategies they use during their shifts. Positive pickles, pickle-shaped cards of affirmations, help to drive these conversations.
Session Track: Leadership & Management
Presenters: Kristi Booker, MSN, RN
Session Description: An ambulatory pediatric dialysis center identified effective and novel methods to reduce hyperphosphatemia in patients receiving hemodialysis.
Session Track: Quality Improvement
Presenters: Suzanne Monteleone, DNP, RN, RNC-NIC, NPD-BC, CNE; Alison Beach, MSN, RN, CCRN, NPD-BC
Session Description: New graduate nurses in pediatric med-surg units often struggle during the transition to specialty practice. This session details a comprehensive, individualized orientation program featuring needs assessments, extended preceptorship, and high-fidelity, end of orientation simulation. Discover how this approach significantly boosted new graduate confidence and retention, fostering a brighter future for pediatric nursing.
Session Track: Education
2:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions X.A (30-minute sessions) (0.5 NCPD Contact Hour)
Presenters: Kristen Overton, MSN, CPN; Carol Ortega, BSN, RN, CO; Kimberly Harris-Eaton, MSN, PMGT-C
Session Description: This session explores the often-overlooked experiences of siblings of children with chronic pain. Using qualitative methods, we explore how siblings are impacted and highlight implications for family-centered pediatric care. Attendees will receive insight to guide more inclusive approaches in research and clinical practice.
Session Track: Research
Presenters: Melisa Evangelista, MSN, RN, CPN; Blandine Alexandre, MSN, RN, CPHON
Session Description: Pediatric inpatient falls are a critical safety concern. Discover how the 'Rock Your Socks, Not Your Crocs' initiative transformed fall prevention by targeting footwear. This session reveals how a targeted Crocs restriction, paired with patient education and family engagement, achieved hospital-wide fall reduction, offering actionable strategies for pediatric nurses.
Session Track: Quality Improvement
Presenters: Sharyn Townsend, BSN, RN, CPN; Natalie Wilzbacher, MSN, RN, CPN
Session Description: This session highlights a pediatric safe sleep education initiative for inpatient nursing staff. Through review of evidence, case-based discussion, and role-play, staff gained knowledge, confidence, and consistency in modeling and documenting safe sleep. Attendees will explore strategies to improve caregiver teaching and reduce preventable infant deaths.
Session Track: Education
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions X.B (30-minute sessions) (0.5 NCPD Contact Hour)
Presenters: Katheryne Tifuh Amba, PhD, DNP, ACNP-BC, CCRN; Lynne Sekarski, MSN, RN, CPN
Session Description: Are you providing culturally competent care? This session describes our research investigating nurses' perceptions in caring for patients with diverse hair types. Every patient deserves access to appropriate hair care while hospitalized. Join us in this session to appreciate how we created a bright future by implementing equitable hair care.
Session Track: Research
Presenters: Grace Alden, MSN, RN; Megan Mendiola, BSN, RN
Session Description: Clinical decompensation presents differently for medically complex pediatric patients. In post-acute care facilities, late recognition of decompensation results in emergent transfer of the patient to a higher level of care. Using an interdisciplinary team approach, the Pediatric Early Warning Sign (PEWS) tool was customized for medically complex pediatric patients in post-acute care. The result has been a reduction in the transfer of patient care, enabled by early recognition of clinical decompensation.
Session Track: Quality Improvement
Presenters: Ashley Owens, MSN-ED, RN, CPN, CNE; Trisha Stockton, MSN, RN, CNRN, CPN, PHN
Session Description: This presentation will highlight the development, implementation, and management of a novel approach to on-shift peer-led education that focuses on hands-on skills, while meeting budgetary constraints. Our education model will be discussed, as well as our methods for identifying topics and gathering learner feedback.
Session Track: Education
Presenters: Lindsey Rowe, MSN, RN, CCRN; Sarah Clarkson, MSN, RN, CPN
Session Description: Pediatric cardiac arrests are rare but critical events, even in intensive care units. When every second counts, high-quality CPR can mean the difference between life and death. In this session, learn how one PICU keeps its team prepared for these high-stakes emergencies through regular, hands-on CPR practice sessions.
Session Track: Quality Improvement
3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Closing Session — Leading Innovation: Navigating Nursing’s Blockbuster Moment (1.0 NCPD Contact Hour)
The total amount of NCPD Contact Hours conference attendees may earn up to is 23.50 NCPD Contact Hours. Attendees can earn up to 17.5 NCPD contact hours by participating in conference sessions. An additional 4.0 NCPD contact hours are available for reviewing virtual posters, and another 3.0 NCPD contact hours can be earned by attending an optional pre-conference event. Access to session slides, handouts, and poster PDFs will be provided to conference attendees.
Attendees must complete at least 25 poster evaluations to be awarded 4.0 NCPD contact hours. Attendees may complete as many evaluations as desired, but the attendee will not be awarded more than 4.0 NCPD contact hours.
Accreditation
- Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 16532, for 23.50 NCPD Contact Hours.
- The Society of Pediatric Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Presenters: Kaitlin Pounders, MSN, RNC-NIC, C-ELBW, NEA-BC, CPPS; Karen Wilson, MSN, APRN, ACCNS-P, CPEN; Shannon Gyani, BSN, RN, CPEN; Alex Surgalski, BSN, RN, CCRN; Sarah Brennan, BSN, RN, CNML, CPN
Session Description: This session examines how intentional gamification through an Escape Room, compared with traditional PowerPoint teaching, improved engagement, competitiveness, and collaboration in implementing a new evidence-based peripheral IV guideline at a pediatric academic medical center. Results show 76% of participants prefer the gamified format to support hospital-wide practice change.
Session Track Education
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