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).
An annual conference, the Illinois ENA Spring Symposium is a multi-day conference held in the Spring. Join us and experience dozens of exhibitors, classes, guest speakers, workshops, and more! Each day features multiple breakout sessions with plenty of opportunities to earn continuing education credits. Stay tuned for more info about our upcoming 2023 Symposium!
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