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Resource developed by Child Life Services at Alberta Children's Hospital/Alberta Heath Services to communicate how to make your experience more comfortable before, during and after a healthcare visit.

Video from Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) demonstrating how to comfort and help reduce newborn pain during blood work or other needle procedures.

Pain fact infographic from Solutions for Kids in Pain (SKIP) on the benefits of psychological therapies in children and adolescents with headache pain.

Dr. Julia Magana from the Pediatric Acute Care Education Sessions (PACES) program at UC Davis Health provides helpful strategies and steps for placing IVs in infants.

Dr. Julia Magana from the Pediatric Acute Care Education Sessions (PACES) program at UC Davis Health shares tips on how to help a child stay still and how to hold a child during a painful …

Dr. Julia Magana from the Pediatric Acute Care Education Sessions (PACES) program at UC Davis Health shares shares four tips to reduce the pain of IV placement and other painful procedures

The PEAK: Pain podcast series focuses on different aspects of assessing, managing, and supporting the pediatric patient in pain. This series was coproduced by the Emergency Medical Services for Children Innovation and Improvement Center (EIIC) …

The purpose of this document is to provide healthcare professionals with key facts and recommendations for treating pain in children. This summary was co-produced by the pain content advisors for TREKK, Dr. Samina Ali of …

In this video, Dr. Corrie Chumpitazi gives an overview of pediatric pain management in the emergency department context, with a focus on education and advocacy toolkits for pediatric pain management that can be used nationwide

AHRQ offers free software to help organizations easily use the AHRQ QIs to generate actionable information about the quality of care they provide. The evidence-based AHRQ QIs provide a standard, trusted approach to quality measurement …

The EIIC is focused on improving outcomes for children in emergency situations by using improvement science as the basis for our efforts to address known gaps in the US healthcare system. Our aim is to …

Gap Analysis Example

The emergency department has frequent workflow interruptions, multiple care transitions, and barriers to effective communication. In addition, the high volume of patients, high decision density under time pressure, diagnostic uncertainty, and limited knowledge of patients’ …

One way to accelerate the process and keep a focus on targeted improvements is through rapid cycle methodology

Define quality improvement and its scope and impact in pediatric emergency care, distinguish quality assurance from quality improvement, list critical components of the quality improvement process, illustrate via case presentation a pediatric emergency quality improvement …

Foundational elements of quality improvement

Participants will learn to: Develop communication strategies for hospital and ED leadership Create pediatric-specific policies and protocols Establish pediatric competency initiatives Ensure processes to maintain pediatric equipment and supplies Implement system-level quality improvement interventions

Pediatric Emergency Care Coordinator Toolkit

CCRN is a specialty certification for nurses who provide direct care to acutely/critically ill pediatric patients regardless of their physical location.