🚩🚩🚩 Working on some turbo teaching for adult nurses in ED who rotate into Children’s ED. Tell me your specific red flags for Children! WeCYPNurses 💙 #PaedsRocks

#ChatGPT packing an emotional punch on Whooping Cough...

Dr Danielle Seddon from Birmingham Children’s Hospital talking about premedication in paediatric anaesthesia. The effects of a traumatic anaesthetic can be long lasting and cause regressive behaviours in children. We must get this right! 👶🏽👶🏼👦🏻👧🏾👦🏼 #TC2024

Horror as terminally ill woman 'forced to sleep on floor' while waiting in A&E - Mirror Online. This is awful, but why does someone with a wholly predictable complication of treatment need to come to an ED? Where’s the acute oncology service? mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

The Emergency Department is not the out-of-hours stop gap for other Speciality’s expected workload

As the #NHS turns 76 today, and with a new government in power, Acting General Secretary & Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger reflects on what must be done to ensure the voice of nursing rings loud and clear through the corridors of power. ➡️ bit.ly/3VTDmv3

Dann Gooding RNC 💙 @ErgGromley Sam Ghali, M.D. Yes !! You normally see no where near that amount of air. So much so it’s squishing the abdominal organs and you can clearly see round the liver etc. never seen one that bad

Evidence has emerged showing less child-specific content is being taught in preregistration children’s nursing programmes, with some concerned about a shift to more generic nurse education and what that means for the future of children's health care. rcni.com/nursing-childr…

Ladies and gentlemen: Joshua Zirkzee. #MUFC || #MUNFUL

In this week’s EBN Highlight Blog Associate Editor Kerry Gaskin Prof Kerry Gaskin will introduce our theme for September 2024 – ‘Children are our future. Challenges influencing the future of nursing care of Children and Young People’. bit.ly/4cyEzOZ

RCN: CYP Acute Care Forum Carli Whittaker RCN Public Health Forum

The September issue of Nursing Children and Young People is out now featuring advice on preventing tooth decay, checking nasogastric tube safety and an accompanying editorial Michael Tatterton PhD RNC RHV SFHEA QN on supporting families, plus an overview of the RSV vaccine. journals.rcni.com/toc/ncyp/36/5

Content warning: Suicide. Today, on #WorldSuicidePreventionDay, we are calling for a national set of standards to improve workplace culture, to reduce stigma and encourage staff to seek support when suffering from suicidal thoughts. Find out more: bit.ly/3Xi4apF

"....an apparent paradox. Hospital staff numbers risen 17% between 2019 & 2023 and 75% more children's nurses than 15 years ago" Anyone know source for this? Doesn't feel like this on ground but perhaps because 15 years ago was a long time! gov.uk/government/pub… #Darzi2024

#histNursing A lovely new blog from RCN History of Nursing Forum on children's nursing 🧒 RCN: CYP Acute Care Forum Carli Whittaker rcn.org.uk/news-and-event…

Encouraging response from Wes Streeting to SAPHNA letter (as part of the Health Policy Influencing Group) offering support as he implements significant change for #CYP across the NHS saphna.co/news/response-…

Reflecting on the publication of the Darzi review last week, Dann Gooding RNC 💙, RCN Children & Young People’s Acute Care Forum Chair, looks at what it tells us about the worsening state of children's health - and the need for investment. 🔗 bit.ly/3Xu4bqx

Sam Ghali, M.D. Anaesthesiology and Critical Care here. From a professor back in med school: Get really good at inserting an intravenous cannula anywhere on the body. In an emergency, this basic skill decides survival.

Sam Ghali, M.D. Many: Always listen to a mom when she says her child is lethargic. Quiet patients in the ED are much more unwell than the noisy. Mottled knees mean big trouble. Bradycardia in the old is very worrying. Breathing through pursed lips. Loss of bowel control. When the SATS