WHAT:
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) hosts its National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition (NTI, #NTI2025) May 19-21 in New Orleans, with preconferences May 18. NTI – the world’s largest conference for nurses who care for acutely and critically ill patients – includes the Critical Care Exposition, the largest and most comprehensive trade show specifically for progressive care and critical care nurses. Hundreds of exhibits covering over 200,000 square feet will showcase cutting-edge healthcare equipment, the latest medical devices and supplies, and career opportunities. Participating Louisiana organizations include Ochsner Children’s Hospital, LSU Health, Loyola University New Orleans School of Nursing, LCMC Health and Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System. Exhibiting companies range from startups to leading global corporations.
WHO:
More than 5,500 nurses from ICU, cardiac care, telemetry, long-term acute care, patient transport, emergency and other progressive care and critical care areas
WHEN:
10:15 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday, May 20
10:15 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wednesday, May 21
WHERE:
Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans (Halls B-E)
SELECTED EXHIBITS (Nearly 300 exhibiting companies and organizations)
Learning Centers
NTI continues to offer its popular ExpoEd program with eight Learning Centers offering in-booth educational sessions on specialized topics, such as sepsis, tele-critical care and long-term acute care hospitals. Ochsner Children’s Hospital and Zoll Medical Pediatric Solutions are partnering to support the pediatric area.
Advanced Critical Care Skills Experience
This new addition to the Critical Care Expo offers interactive, hands-on skill stations where nurses can improve their critical care skills and techniques. Nine different skill stations with expert trainers will demonstrate and teach a variety of skill training opportunities.
Other Hands-on Activities and Displays
The Critical Care Challenge is a clinical competition in which teams of nurses use their clinical knowledge and skills to provide care for a simulated patient. Attendees can don virtual reality headsets in the Sepsis Showcase and experience highly interactive scenarios in a patient room format. The LSU Health Nursing Skills and Technology Center Simulation Showcase offers high-fidelity sepsis simulation as well as a critical care skills-checkoff and debriefing. Experts from the American College of Surgeons will provide hands-on training related to the Stop the Bleed program. A see-through replica of a body with visible arteries and veins is featured at the SurgMate display.
Transport Nursing
Sponsored by the Air & Surface Transport Nurses Association (ASTNA), the Transport Nursing Learning Center provides a close-up look inside an Ochsner Children’s Hospital patient transport helicopter and ambulance, plus a static mock-up of a patient transport helicopter to show how critically ill patients are cared for and treated during emergency transport.
Patient Care Innovations
Healthcare and medical device companies, including sector leaders and startups, bring interactive demonstrations of the newest equipment, devices and technology to the showroom floor.
FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REQUEST MEDIA CREDENTIALS
Visit www.aacn.org/nti or www.aacn.org/pressreleases, or contact AACN Communications Representative Kristie Aylett, APR, kristie.aylett@aacn.org, 228-229-9472 (voice/text).