Pediatric liaison nurse job description
Pediatric Specific Policies/Procedures
- Develop, implement, evaluate, and report.
Pediatric Specific Quality Improvement Program
- Develop, implement, evaluate and report.
Pediatric Liaison Meetings
- Attend monthly meetings.
- Report/share info with peers at work.
Act as liaison for the following areas: The pediatric liaison nurse interacts with each of these on issues related to care of the pediatric population:
- Base Station (for prehospital transport issues and paramedic education).
- Area Pediatric Critical Care Center (PCC). This is a separate designation from the Emergency Department Approved for Pediatrics (EDAP). Requirements for PCC designation include a trauma station, pediatric intensive care unit, a suspected child abuse and neglect team, pediatric surgeon, and in-house specialists.
- Area Trauma Center (for specific pediatric trauma related issues, education, etc.).
- Prehospital Care Providers (as above for base station).
- Emergency Medical Services Agency (administrative assistance or identifying issues in care of kids, deficiencies in system/facility/prehospital).
Pediatric Continuing Education
The pediatric liaison nurse is responsible for ensuring that staff are certified and have access to pediatric emergency care education.
- Monitor pediatric continuing education and pediatric advanced life support certification of ED staff nurses.
- Ensure that staff attend a two-day postgraduate pediatric emergency course every four years.
- Ensure that staff receive eight hours of pediatric-specific continuing education every two years.
In-house Committee Participation
- Participate with any committee that will affect pediatric care in the ED.
Intradepartmental Communication
- ED nursing staff
- EDAP medical director
- ED nurse manager
- EDAP Pediatric Consultant
- ED physicians
Interdepartmental Communication
- Pediatric nurse manager
- Pharmacy manager
- Pediatric intensive care unit nurse manager
- Neonatal intensive care unit nurse manager
- Labor and delivery nurse manager
- Newborn nursery nurse manager
- Social services
- Quality improvement department
Communication
- Share information and identify new information that will affect the care of pediatric patients in the ED.
- Maintain good working relationship with other departments.
EDAP survey
The pediatric liaison nurse is responsible for coordinating the EDAP survey. This includes compiling policies and procedures, MD and RN credentials, mandatory education certifications, continuing education, license numbers, education given in the ED, clinical competencies, and the quality improvement program. All this information is collated in a binder for the survey.
Source: Pediatric Liaison Nurses of Los Angeles, Torrance, CA.
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