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Benefits of Inteprofessional Collaboration - ✔✔reduces and prevents fragmentation in care
delivery thereby reducing errors
Components of Quality Care - ✔✔Safe
Timely
Efficient
Equitable
Patient-Centered
Common factors contributing to medical errors - ✔✔#1 Communication
Results of patient safety for the patient and the organization - ✔✔shorter hospital stays
minimal exposure to bacterial cross-contamination
preservation of optimal level functioning
Family centered care - ✔✔family is the "constant" in the child's life
the patient AND family are the client
enable - display capabilities
empower - fostering strengths and abilities
Atraumatic care - ✔✔therapeutic care that eliminates or minimizes the psychological and
physical stress experienced by children and their families in the health care system
1. prevent or minimize separation from parents
2. promote a sense of control
, 3. prevent or minimize bodily injury or pain
Communication methods with children - ✔✔1. allow warming up
2. avoid sudden advances
3. use transition objects
4. be aware of non-verbal responses
5. be eye level
6. be honest
7. avoid words with double meanings
8. give choices only when one exists
9. allow expression of feeling/concern
10. validate feelings
11. storytelling
12. drawings
Prep a child for a procedure - ✔✔Use diagrams, pictures, videos - adolescents
Dolls and play equipment - children
do not lie!
sit at eye level
teach in order of sequence
discuss what the pt might see/hear/smell/feel
FLACC pain scale - ✔✔Each section scored on a scale of 0-2
Face
Legs
Activity
Cry