Illinois ENA offers various continuing education opportunities for emergency nurses and healthcare providers throughout the year. This includes our largest educational conference, the Illinois ENA Annual Spring Symposium, as well as ENA’s Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course (ENPC) and the Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC). Information on these programs are available through this webpage.
In addition, other offerings that can be accessed are conferences and educational opportunities through national ENA as well as education/trainings through partner organizations, such as the Illinois College of Emergency Physicians (ICEP), Illinois EMS for Children (EMSC) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (Child Passenger Safety Technician course). Visit this webpage for educational events as well as information on emergency nursing certification through the Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing (CEN, CFRN, CPEN, CTRN).
Our annual conference for emergency nurses and other interested professionals, the Illinois ENA Spring Symposium is a multi-day event. Join us and experience dozens of presentations, guest speakers, workshops, networking breaks, exhibitors, welcome dinner, and more! Each day features breakout sessions with plenty of opportunities to earn continuing education credits. Stay tuned for more info about our upcoming Symposium!
Stat tune for more information on 2025's event.
Illinois ENA co-sponsors several classes of the National Child Passenger Safety Certification held throughout the year at different locations around Illinois.
For registration scholarship, please contact thelma.kuska@illinoisena.org
To view the latest schedule, CLICK HERE!
September 11, 2024
Location:
Central DuPage Hospital
25 N. Winfield Road
Winfield, IL 60190
Inpatient Pavilion Conference Rooms 2 & 3
Contact Harriet Hawkins hshawk@att.net
Every second counts when stabilizing life-threatening trauma cases. This course, taught by qualified nurses, prepares you with the knowledge, critical thinking skills and training needed to provide high-quality trauma nursing care. After completing this course, you will be able to properly assess patients and implement evidence-based interventions to improve outcomes for them.
To find a course near you, CLICK HERE!
September 19 & 20, 2024
Location:
Advocate Christ Medical Center Conference Center
The Mesleh Room 0636A and 0636B
4440 W. 95th St., Oak Lawn, IL 60453
For more information and to register, CLICK HERE!
Features: “Nurse Practitioner Programs” section has offerings in CV, CNS, Diabetes/Endocrinology, and Respiratory categories. “CME Gateway” links to a site maintained by an MD that has >195 sites and >12,000 courses that offer CME. If you register on the site you can get e-mail notification of new offerings
Certifying body: ANCC for the NP courses; links in the CME Gateway section are accredited by ACCME
How offered: CD-ROM, On-line, Audio CD with workbook, Audioconference, Podcasts
Cost: FREE (everything in the NP section)
On-Line Tracking of Credits: Planned in the future
Features: Many offerings for CME – (click on “Get CME and CE” in the left hand column; I couldn’t get the “Search” section for CME to work or the ‘CME” link at the top) – “Featured Courses” have good case studies with pictures
Certifying body: ACCME
How offered: On-line
Cost: FREE in the Featured Courses section
On-Line Tracking of Credits: No; can print certificate once course and quiz are complete
Features: Focus on breaking medical new stories; multi-specialty, 20 categories, Teaching Briefs, and Conference Reports that earn 0.25-0.5 contact hours, Presentations for 1 contact hour. Daily page delivered to e- mail – very easy to pick up a few credits each week – read the short news stories and take a 2 question test.
Certifying body: AACN contact hours
How offered: On-line
Cost: FREE
On-Line Tracking of Credits: Yes – can print list of all titles and contact hours for entire year
Features: 34 specialties; nursing is one; able to customize and sign up for certain specialties to be sent as e-mail; multi-faceted site with pt. ed materials, on-line journals, WebMD links….very robust
Certifying body: ANCC contact hours for the nursing section; ACCME (AMA PRA Category 1 CME) for most others
How offered: On-line
Cost: FREE
On-Line Tracking of Credits: Yes
Features: Courses in Community Health, Ethics, Geriatrics, Infection Control, Management, Med-Surg, Pt/Family Education, Peds, Pharmacology, Psych, Mental Health
Certifying body: ANCC and AACN
How offered: On-line or by mail
Cost: A few are FREE; most are $15-39 for 2-15 hours
On-Line Tracking of Credits: No; transcript sent
Features: 9 categories of interest
Certifying body: ANCC contact hours
How offered: Webcasts, on-line CME, Journal articles…
Cost: FREE
On-Line Tracking of Credits: Yes
Listings for Live conferences only; not on-line education. Can sign up for e-mail list to be notified of upcoming conferences.
Features: In Education/CE section, the listing for “Unlimited CE” is the same as #8, with a wide variety of course choices. “Event Guide” allows you to search for education events, seminars, CE classes or travel study
Certifying body: ANCC contact hours
How offered: On-line or ordering printed materials
Cost: Varies from $5-$10 per contact hour; a few sponsored offerings are free; unlimited online CE $44.95 per year
On-Line Tracking of Credits: Yes