Pediatric and Neonatal Nursing highlights the central role of nursing teams in delivering safe, family-centred care across inpatient, outpatient and community settings. This session is designed for pediatric and neonatal nurses, nurse practitioners, midwives and nursing leaders who seek evidence-based skills, workflows and leadership strategies that improve outcomes and patient experience. Presentations will emphasise competency frameworks—structured orientation, simulation-based skills training and continuing professional development modules—that ensure consistent, high-quality nursing care in NICU, pediatric wards and ambulatory environments. Nursing-led initiatives such as breastfeeding support programmes, skin-to-skin facilitation in neonatal units, structured discharge teaching and home-visit follow-up models will be showcased as scalable interventions that reduce readmissions and improve family confidence. Sessions will also address safety: medication reconciliation checklists, family empowerment during rounds, and bedside handover tools that reduce communication error.

Practice innovation modules will showcase nurse-led clinics for chronic conditions (asthma, diabetes, growth monitoring), remote monitoring pathways, and telehealth triage algorithms that keep children safely at home when appropriate. Quality improvement workshops will provide step-by-step guides for unit-based projects—how to measure baseline performance, design iterative tests of change, and spread successful practices across networks. Emotional resilience and workforce wellbeing are major themes: strategies to reduce burnout, peer-support models, structured debriefs after critical events and mentorship programmes that foster retention. Regulatory and policy discussions will outline credentialing pathways, scope-of-practice expansions and nursing roles in multidisciplinary leadership.

Practical takeaways in Pediatric Nursing Conference include downloadable competency checklists, simulation scenarios (neonatal resuscitation, pediatric airway emergencies), family education templates and nurse-led quality improvement toolkits. Panels will highlight nursing research that changed practice—such as kangaroo-care protocols and nurse-coordinated follow-up reducing NICU readmissions—and discuss pathways to implement research findings locally. Attendees will leave with a concrete plan for at least one unit-level improvement they can start immediately, along with resources to train and evaluate staff performance.