Pediatric Readiness in the Emergency Department

J Emerg Nurs. 2019 Jan;45(1):e3-e18. doi: 10.1016/j.jen.2018.10.003. Epub 2018 Nov 1.

Authors

Katherine Remick¹, Marianne Gausche-Hill², Madeline M Joseph³, Kathleen Brown⁴, Sally K Snow⁵, Joseph L Wright⁶; AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS, Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Section on Surgery; AMERICAN COLLEGE OF EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Committee; EMERGENCY NURSES ASSOCIATION, Pediatric Committee; Pediatric Readiness in the Emergency Department; POLICY STATEMENT; Organizational Principles to Guide and Define the Child Health Care System and/or Improve the Health of All Children

Collaborators

Joseph Wright, Terry Adirim, Michael S D Agus, James Callahan, Toni Gross, Natalie Lane, Lois Lee, Suzan Mazor, Prashant Mahajan, Nathan Timm, Madeline M Joseph, Kiyetta Alade, Christopher Amato, Jahn T Avarello, Steven Baldwin, Isabel A Barata, Lee S Benjamin, Kathleen Berg, Kathleen Brown, Jeffrey Bullard-Berent, Ann Marie Dietrich, Phillip Friesen, Michael Gerardi, Alan Heins, Doug K Holtzman, Jeffrey Homme, Timothy Horeczko, Paul Ishimine, Samuel Lam, Katharine Long, Kurtis Mayz, Sanjay Mehta, Larry Mellick, Aderonke Ojo, Audrey Z Paul, Denis R Pauze, Nadia M Pearson, Debra Perina, Emory Petrack, David Rayburn, Emily Rose, W Scott Russell, Timothy Ruttan, Mohsen Saidinejad, Brian Sanders, Joelle Simpson, Patrick Solari, Michael Stoner, Jonathan H Valente, Jessica Wall, Dina Wallin, Muhammad Waseem, Paula J Whiteman, Dale Woolridge, Tiffany Young, Joyce Foresman-Capuzzi, Rose Johnson, Heather Martin, Justin Milici, Cam Brandt, Nicholas Nelson

Affiliations

¹ National EMS for Children Innovation and Improvement Center, Department of Pediatrics, Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin, Dell Children's Medical Center, San Marcos Hays County EMS System, Austin, Texas, Associate Medical Director.
² Los Angeles County EMS Agency, Department of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles BioMedical Research Institute, Los Angeles, California.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida.
⁴ Emergency Medicine and Trauma Center at Children's National Health System, Washington, DC.
⁵ Independent Consultant, Pediatric Trauma and Emergency Nursing.
⁶ Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC.

PMID: 30392719
DOI: 10.1016/j.jen.2018.10.003

No abstract available

Keywords: Pediatric readiness; emergency treatment.

MeSH terms

Child
Emergency Medical Services
Emergency Service, Hospital / standards*
Evidence-Based Emergency Medicine
Health Services Accessibility / standards*
Health Services Needs and Demand
Humans
Patient Care Team
Pediatrics / methods*
Quality Improvement
United States