These programs are integral to driving pediatric readiness at the state and local level. Please consider allowing us to share your contact information with your local EMSC program on the intake questionnaire.
Pediatric Readiness
1) A series of 2006 reports entitled the Future of Emergency Care described the state of pediatric emergency care as uneven, characterized by gaps in day-to-day readiness to meet the needs of children.
In response, the EMSC program along with the American College of Surgeons, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Emergency Nurses Association developed the National Pediatric Readiness Project with the goal of ensuring high-quality emergency care for children in the nation’s emergency departments. Based on the Joint Policy Statement “Pediatric Readiness in the Emergency Department” the project consists of a national assessment, a checklist and toolkit.
These two projects form the basis for the current collaborative.
Collaborative Overview
A quality improvement collaborative—in contrast to a course or a training—is designed around collective learning and implementation of shared best practices. Rather than teaching what is pediatric readiness, we will instead work together to understand how to improve pediatric readiness within your organization.
A total of 1,496 individuals from around the globe have enrolled in the collaborative with the singular purpose of enhancing the pediatric capabilities within our emergency care system. Visit this link to explore where everyone is located:
The collaborative will occur in two phases. During phase 1, we will explore the seven areas of pediatric readiness (one per month) and identify areas for improvement at your organization. During Phase 2, you will develop and implement an improvement project.
Nuts & Bolts
This will be immediately followed by 1-hour, track-specific breakout sessions where PECCs and other pediatric experts from around the country will discuss their experience implementing pediatric readiness in the topic focus area. This will be a 15–20 minute presentation followed by a group discussion. We will use polling, white boarding, and other interactive features to promote engagement. Please come prepared to join the conversation, ask questions and share your experiences.
The environmental scan worksheet is a word document that contains a series of questions that are designed to help you evaluate the topic focus area as it currently exists within your organization.
On the first of each month, you will also receive a link to our online REDCap system where each month we ask you to complete the series of questions in the Environmental Scan worksheet and identify one change strategy that you might employ at your organization. You will receive a reminder to complete this form on each Monday of the month. The link to our first Focus Area—The PECC—will be sent on Monday.
You will also have a link to a personal dashboard where you can access your answers. This will be important in March when it is time to select an improvement project.
CE credit (CAPCE, CNE and MOC Part 4) will be available to all participants at no cost. You must attend the live session and complete the online evaluation. Physicians interested in obtaining 25 MOC Part 4 credits are required complete Phase 2 of the collaborative.
Please note: if you can no longer participate in the collaborative, please email me at pwdc@emscimprovement.center. I will take you off the email distribution list.
