Pediatric patients are a challenging population amongst the trauma patients and they have their own uniqueness. One of the challenges is confirming that the team is ready to provide care for the pediatric population. The Pediatric Readiness project was developed to assist centers in their preparation for the pediatric population due to many centers not being prepared based on the study.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the concept of Pediatric Readiness in emergency care for children
- Describe the National Pediatric Readiness Project
- Identify Pediatric Readiness Assessment results and available toolkits
- Recognize local and national Pediatric Facility Recognition programs
The presenters provided the following answers to questions asked during the presentation:
- Can a facility take the NPRP anytime and receive a gap report?
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- We are currently in the quality improvement (QI) phase of the NPRP assessment. This means that hospitals can visit www.pedsready.org and take the assessment as many times as they like for QI purposes. Participants immediately receive an email gap report summary showing their overall pediatric readiness score, the answers to the scored questions, and a summary of all of their answers to all of the questions. This report looks different from than gap reports received during the formal 2021 NPRP data collection period, and it does not do comparison scoring from previous years. It is still considered a ‘gap report’ and is accepted for ACS Trauma Center verification where applicable.
- Is there a contact, aside from the EMSC Program Manager, that would be able to provide their state's EDC liaison for information regarding if a facility completed the NPRP and access to their gap report?
- Yes! Folks are welcome to reach out to our PedsReady Support Team at any time with questions related to the NPRP assessment, gap report requests, NPRP resources, research inquiries, and more at PedsReady@hsc.utah.edu. We usually get back to folks within a 24-hour period and are happy to be of assistance. Note: We always work with the respondent to provide gap report information directly to them as per confidentiality protocol. In other cases, we refer folks back to the EMSC Program Manager for that state depending on the nature of the request. We never give a 3rd party PII, data, or other information about a facility unless they are a researcher who has filled out a formal Manuscript Analysis Request Form (MARF) with the EDC.
- When is the next NPRP?
- There has been no formal announcement, but the next NPRP assessment is slated for 2026 as part of a 5-year cycle.
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Speaker(s):Toni Gross, MD, MPH, FAAP, FAEMS, is the Chief of Emergency Medicine at Children’s Hospital New Orleans. Dr. Gross received her training at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia and completed her pediatric residency at LSU Health New Orleans and Children’s Hospital. She was a fellow at Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine and trained at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago. She served as a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine and was elected to the National Association of EMS Physicians board of directors in 2020. She has been involved in national EMS for Children programs for more than a decade and currently serves as the Medical Director and Chair of the Advisory Board for Louisiana’s EMS for Children State Partnership program.
Heiki Griffin, RN, BSN, Statewide Pediatric Nurse Consultant, Emergency Medical Services for Children Program Liaison, Lead Outreach, Louisiana Department of Health | Bureau of Family Health - As a Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care nurse of 9+ years, readiness to care for children quickly became a passion. Now, as a mother of 2, pediatric readiness is personal. After years of travel nursing coast to coast, weaving in and out of numerous hospitals, she landed in consulting in her home state, and she truly enjoys utilizing her knowledge to connect our healthcare workers to large scale initiatives. She has been consulting for 6 years now with a focus on multi-faceted readiness and she has been successful in leading the development of multiple projects that lead programs to achieving their goals in improving and advancing pediatric healthcare.
