VIRTUAL SUMMIT 🫀 FEBRUARY 18, 2026

Heart Failure: Optimizing Outcomes and Improving Quality of Life (3.5 CE)

Tune in February 18 from 12-3:30pm CST for a heart failure virtual summit featuring evidence-based insights, real-world clinical strategies, and a powerful patient perspective. Gain practical tools to elevate cardiac care and improve patient outcomes.

Hosted by the Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing, this dynamic event will bring together expert clinicians, nurses, and healthcare professionals across emergency, critical care, pediatric, and cardiac specialties to explore the full spectrum of heart failure—from core foundations and congenital heart defects to hemodynamics, temporary mechanical circulatory support, and life with an LVAD.

Use discount code SUMMIT at checkout for $10 OFF your registration, valid through January 18!

Heart Failure: A Common and Complex Condition

Michael Dexter, MSN, RN, CEN, CFRN, CPEN, CTRN, TCRN, CCRN, CNL

Review key foundations of heart failure, including incidence, classification, and common presenting symptoms. Compare heart failure and cardiogenic shock, differentiating similar patient presentations.

Heart Failure in Children: The 5 Most Common Congenital Heart Defects

Derek Collins, BSN, RN, C-NPT, CFRN, CEN, CTRN, TCRN, FP-C

Explore five common congenital heart defects. Recognize key clinical features, differentiate between acyanotic and cyanotic lesions, and understand principles of initial stabilization, medical management, and indications for surgical intervention.

Holding the Line: Hemodynamic Management and Temporary Cardiac Support in Heart Failure

Bruce Hoffman, Ed.D.(s), FNPc, MSN-RN, CFRN, FP-C, CCP-C, C-NPT

Take an integrated approach to hemodynamics, clinical assessment, and advanced support strategies in the management of heart failure—including temporary mechanical circulatory support (tMCS) devices such as the intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP), Impella, and ECMO.

Living with Mechanical Circulatory Support: The Care of Patients with VADs

Linda Staley, MSN, FNP, RN

Follow the journeys of real patients living with a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD), offering valuable firsthand insights into the patient experience and quality of life after LVAD implantation—truly going “to infinity and beyond” with advanced cardiac support.

The Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing (BCEN) offers robust nursing specialty certification programs fostering empowered nurses across the emergency spectrum who contribute noticeably to patient care, safety and outcomes. Over 60,000 BCEN credentials are held by RNs who specialize in adult and pediatric emergency, flight, critical care ground transport, trauma, and burn nursing.