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Texas Children's Center for TeleHealth

CENTER FOR TELEHEALTH
Professional education

Nursing and allied health distance education and CNE/CEU offerings
Texas Children's Center for TeleHealth invites you to attend another in a timely informative series of nursing and allied health distance education and CNE/CEU programs.

Join us as we kickoff a new season of distance education!

"The Child with a Tracheostomy"

Barbara Montagnino,MS,RN,CNS

Registration
Register online to participate in one of our CNE/CEU events and sign up for an email reminder. Or register by phone, toll free at 800-TCH-TELE. 

Registration fee is $10. There is no registration fee for Texas Children's employees. Program begins at 4:30 PM.

Barbara has over 30 years of pediatric nursing experience. Since 2001, Barbara has been the Clinical Nurse Specialist for the Progressive Care Unit at TCH. One of her clinical responsibilities is coordinating education for families of technology-dependent children. She is also helping develop the Palliative Care Program at TCH and has a special interest in bioethics.

Over the years, she has spoken nationally and internationally. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and authored chapters in medical and nursing textbooks.  Recent publications and research interests relate to the management of technology-dependent children. 

She serves on the hospital’s Bioethics Committee. She is a member of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Pediatric Urology Nurses Specialists Organization.

Her commitment to quality care for children extends internationally. Since 2004 she has served as a board member for the non-profit medical organization, IVUmed, developing education materials for doctors and nurses in low resource countries. She has worked as a surgical nurse and educator on IVUmed missions in Central America, Asia and Africa.

2010-2011 Series
Date presented Topic Presenter
February 7, 2012

The Child with a Tracheostomy

Barbara Montagnino,MS,RN,CNS

Past events
Past presentations are available for viewing in pdf format. CNE's and CEU's will not be awarded for review of past presentations.

Delivery and locations
The continuing education courses will use telehealth technology to deliver real-time interactive instruction from Texas Children's TeleHealth Studio in Abercrombie B130 to participants at the following locations:

Texas Children's Hospital main campus

  • Clinical Care Center, 10th Floor, D.1000.35

  • Nabisco Building, Texas Children's Health Plan, Oreo Cookie Room

Texas Children's Hospital West Campus
Directions to
West Campus

  • I-10 and Barker Cypress 18200 Katy Freeway Houston, TX 77094
    Phone: (832) 227-1000
    2nd Floor Classroom #WC.0215.56

Texas Children's Health Centers®
Directions to
health centers

Texas Children's Pediatric Associates
Directions to TCPA practices

McAllen, Texas

 

Selected Independent School District sites served through the following Education Service Centers

Register now to participate in one of our CNE/CEU events and sign up for email reminders.

Continuing education credits

1.0 contact hours available to nurses.
Texas Children's Hospital is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Texas Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Center for TeleHealth