pediatrics

Introduction: What is comfort positioning (CP)? Why should healthcare providers in pediatrics use CP during procedures? CP continues our journey of teaching nonpharmacologic pain management (NPMT) as presented at the 2017 conference…

Background: Our ambulatory emergency response team (ERT) is comprised of registered nurses, medical assistants, respiratory care practitioners, and non-clinical managers…

In these short Special Interest Group (SIG) presentations, multiple speakers highlight approaches to managing issues related to pediatric health and tri-service military issues in the practice environment…

This session describes the role and purpose of the RN care manager and identifies best practices for the care coordination and transition management of children with medical complexity…

Virtual attendees will be able to interact and engage with one another during this networking time by participating in real-time attendee chats…

This session is the meeting of members of the Pediatric SIG, which serves as the voice for pediatric nursing in AAACN…

Purpose: Humans have an innate drive to connect with other living things. There is a long-standing history of turning to animals for improving health and well-being…

The Institute for Medicine set a goal that 90% of healthcare decisions were evidence-based by 2024. As an industry, we need to meet this goal. Nurses account for the largest group of healthcare providers with direct patient access and managerial support of care initiatives…

Patients have historically utilized various methods of communication to schedule an appointment, request medication refills, or seek medical advice to determine the necessary level of care. Patients verbalized increased frustration with hold time for a phone agent or message portal response times…

Purpose: This quality improvement (QI) project aimed to assess whether a standardized process for telephone triage, reinforcing caregiver use of the AAP, and documentation impacted ED visits and nursing practice…

Purpose: This project aimed to provide a virtual, on-demand presence of a certified child life specialist (CCLS) and a pediatric clinical nurse specialist (CNS) to a rural health system in preparation for mass vaccination of children against SARS-CoV-2…

Purpose: The purpose of this project was to implement social determinants screening to assess patient and family needs in an outpatient pediatric primary and specialty care setting…

During the 2023 AAACN conference, attendees of the Pediatric Special Interest Group (SIG) session were asked to identify topics they viewed as most critical to their nursing practice in pediatric ambulatory care…

Sudden cardiac death is the leading medical cause of death in young athletes. Sports physical exams are used to establish the safety of athletes’ sports participation. Pediatric mobile clinics have been found to increase access to care in communities that are underserved…

In these short rapid-fire presentations, multiple speakers highlight approaches to managing issues related to telehealth in the practice environment…

This session discusses the development of a care coordination pilot program to address complex needs of pediatric gastroenterology patients, with the goals of preventing overuse of the emergency room and inpatient admissions while increasing compliance with plans of care…

Learning objective: Evaluate how education and a pre-implementation survey to identify screening barriers may affect universal depression screening outcomes in three pediatric sub-specialty clinics…

Purpose: The purpose of this randomized controlled trial was to evaluate the impact of a post-hospitalization phone call on the self-administered parent asthma management self-efficacy (PAMSE) scale, attendance at post-hospitalization follow-up appointments, and re-presentation to the admitting hos…