Shagufta
Aga Khan University Hospital, Pakistan
Title: Redefining the Future in Pediatric Emergency Nursing Education of a Low Middle Income Country, Pakistan
Biography
Biography: Shagufta
Abstract
Child Life Foundation (CLF) operates three pediatric emergency rooms in public sector hospitals of Karachi and treating one million children every year. The three emergency rooms serve around 1200-1300 pediatric patients per day which are managed by nursing staff and physicians having different years of experiences, knowledge and skills. The nursing care is provided by registered nurses, community nurses, nursing attendant and pediatric technicians. As working in these overcrowded emergency rooms is a challenge in itself, which required continuous monitoring and evaluation of nursing competency skills. Therefore, CLF developed an in-house nursing certificate course for their nursing staff to improve their emergency room nursing competencies, translate their knowledge and skills into practice to share the experience of developing a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Certificate of Nursing (PEMCN) course. The basic goal of this course is to train nurses who provide urgent and emergency care to pediatric patients and their families. Nursing care includes health care facilitation through proper triaging, direct patient assessment, disease recognition and stabilization by applying systematic approach.