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AONL On-Demand Webinar: Industry Insights: Keeping Pediatric Patients Safe with Virtual Sitting
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Description
Caring for
children in the inpatient setting presents unique challenges for hospitals
across the nation. Similar to adults, kids can interfere with medical devices,
elope from the hospital, and sustain injuries from falls, but their primary
needs tend to differ and nurses caring for these patients need different
support. Pediatric patients have always required a different touch, but the
situation is being exacerbated by persistent staffing shortages and the
concurrent mental health crisis amongst young Americans. Youth patients in need
of behavioral health services are being kept in the ED due to a lack of mental
health facilities and appropriate staffing. This makes providing safe and
effective care to this important patient cohort costly, ineffective and resource
intensive.
Advances in technology, like
virtual sitting, have proven to support adequate staffing and allow children to
be safe and well cared for. Hear how nurse leaders at a children’s hospital and
an acute-care hospital are using virtual sitting for pediatric and adolescent
patients and have succeeded in reducing adverse events while also reducing
stress on families and caregivers. In addition, they will discuss the policies
and procedures to consider and how to get buy-in from your team for this
specific patient population.
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