Critical Care and Progressive Care Certification Review Course
Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center - Support Services Building (SSB 2011)
7601 Imperial Highway
Downey, CA 90242
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 8:00am PT - Thursday, April 3, 2025 at 5:00pm PT
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Topic
This two-day course provides the Critical Care or Progressive Care nurse with a review of essential core curriculum content in preparation to pass a national certification exam through AACN. The review course has emphasis on body systems, patient problems, treatment modalities, the domains of nursing practice, and content most likely to be tested. A review of sample questions and answers with rationale will be highly valuable, and will enhance participant’s test taking ability, confidence and facilitate success in passing the exam. The course may also be taken as a didactic review to obtain CE credits.
Credits Offered
This event offers
16.0 contact hours
to attendees.
Accreditation Info:
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing provider number CEP 17226 . Sixteen (16) contact hours will be given for the CCRN and (15) for the PCCN course. No partial credits available.
Additional Information
This two-day course provides the Critical Care or Progressive Care nurse with a review of essential core curriculum content in preparation to pass a national certification exam through AACN.
Speakers
Linda DeStefano, DNP, FCCM is a Doctorate-prepared nursing content and test taking expert with a strong enthusiastic passion for teaching and mentoring nurses throughout the certification process. She has over 30 years of acute care nursing experience, including a 16- year Clinical Nurse Specialist position in ICU and an Acute Care Hospitalist role, managing a variety of adult patients including Medical-Surgical, ICU, Telemetry, ED, and throughout the continuum of care to the time of discharge. Dr. DeStefano has presented both locally and nationally on diverse clinical topics. She has served as an Assistant Clinical Professor at UCLA School of Nursing and as a preceptor for graduate students at UCLA, California State University Long Beach, and other Universities. She is a past President and Director at Large for the American Association of Critical Care Nurses local chapter and is honored to be a designated Fellow in the American College of Critical Care Medicine.