If you live in the San Diego area and are looking for some in-person San Diego nursing CEUs options, here are our top 8 choices:
San Diego Nursing CEU Guide
Located at the medical center campus, UCSD Nursing offers several different options for nursing professional development. They are recognized as an accredited CEU provider by the California Board of Nursing. There are a variety of offerings that change monthly, to include:
- Stroke Certified Registered Nurse review course
- ONS/ONCC Chemotherapy/Immunotherapy Certification (initial and renewal)
- Pulmonary Artery Catheter Management class
- Non-Violent Crisis Intervention
National Nurses United is the largest nursing union in the country, offering CE opportunities nationwide. Several CE classes are available in the San Diego area, so check their website for local offerings. Classes include:
- “Exploring and Explaining the Workplace Violence and Burnout Epidemics”
- “How Nurses Can Heal America With Medicare For All”
NEO provides several different learning opportunities for nurses in the San Diego and Orange County areas. They offer American Heart Association (AHA) courses, as well as American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) certification classes. These include:
- AHA Basic Life Support
- AHA Pediatric Advanced Life Support
- AHA Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support
- AAP/AHA Neonatal Resuscitation Program
This website has compiled a list of nursing and health-related conferences in the San Diego area for 2020. Offerings include:
- Critical Issues in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Conference (Doubletree, San Diego)
- Sponsored by the San Diego Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, San Diego Psychiatric Society, and others; offers up to 9 continuing education credits
- 2020 Trauma Summit (Holiday Inn, San Diego Bayside)
- This conference is organized by the State of California Emergency Medical Services Authority, and provides an overview of topics of interest to trauma nurses or nurses that provide care to trauma patients in other settings.
Located in Mission Valley, Express Training Solutions offers a variety of continuing education opportunities, including:
- Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course (ENPC)
- Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC)
- Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics
The Health Occupations Center is located just outside of San Diego in Santee, CA and offers several interesting options for in-person nursing CEUs:
Scripps is a non-profit health system that offers continuing medical education (CME) conferences in a variety of specialties, many of which have been authorized to provide nursing CEUs. Conferences and grand rounds include:
- Scripps Cardiomyopathy and Cardio-Oncology Symposium
- Updates in Diabetes Management
- Scripps Cancer Care Symposium: A Nursing and Advanced Practice Collaboration
- Brain Injury Rehabilitation Conference
- Clinical Advances in Heart Failure and Arrhythmias
With a location in Chula Vista, Sharp Medical Center has continuing medical education classes offered throughout the year that can be applied as nursing CEUs. Classes include:
- Perinatal M&M Case Conference
- Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee
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