

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Heart Failure: Optimizing Outcomes and Improving Quality of Life (3.5 CE)
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 18 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Wed, 18 Feb, 2026 at 09:30 pm
- **Event Description**: 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!

AGENDA:

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.

ABOUT

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.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # CEP17490 for 3.5 contact hour
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/oak-brook-illinois/heart-failure-optimizing-outcomes-and-improving-quality-of-life-35-ce/200029295397923
- **Event Categories**: business, virtual
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 31

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://learn.bcen.org/learn/courses/276/heart-failure-optimizing-outcomes-and-improving-quality-of-life-a-virtual-summit?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=oak+brook%2C+illinois-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Oak Brook, Illinois
- **location**: Online event
- **full address**: Online event, 1900 Spring Rd, Oak Brook, IL 60523-1447, United States, Oak Brook, Illinois

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing (BCEN) (https://allevents.in/org/board-of-certification-for-emergency-nursing-bcen/18438397)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 18 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Online event, 1900 Spring Rd, Oak Brook, IL 60523-1447, United States, Oak Brook, Illinois
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing (BCEN)
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** business, virtual
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Heart Failure: Optimizing Outcomes and Improving Quality of Life (3.5 CE) ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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