Curriculum to Introduce Critical Care Nurses to Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation.

Background: Despite the growing use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in intensive care units (ICUs), no standardized ECMO training pathways are available for ECMO-naive critical care nurses.

Objectives: To evaluate a critical care nurse ECMO curriculum that may be reproducible across institutions.

Methods: An ECMO curriculum consisting of a basic safety course and an advanced user course was designed for critical care nurses.