Poster Presentation: Exploring Knowledge of Adult Emergency Room Nurses Regarding Childhood Development and Children’s Responses to Healthcare Experiences
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This study explored the effectiveness of a training module developed as an educational intervention for nurses in an adult emergency healthcare setting regarding child development milestones, healthcare experiences, and supportive psychosocial care. Paired-samples t-test pre-post analyses (n=30) revealed a statistically significant increase in total knowledge, and knowledge regarding infants, school age children, and adolescents, suggesting the effectiveness of this intervention. Nurses also acknowledged usefulness of modules. Practice and research implications are provided.
Learning Objectives:
List reasons why seeking care in the emergency department can be especially scary or confusing for a child and family.
Describe the components of the educational training module developed for this research toward enhancing knowledge of developmental stages, as well as stressors and coping strategies relevant to each stage (from infancy through adolescence), for nurses working in the emergency department of a community hospital.
Explain the key findings of this research, namely that there was a statistically significant increase from pretest to posttest in total knowledge and a statistically significant increase in knowledge for questions regarding infants, school age children, and adolescents.
Articulate understanding of the process of collaborating in a community-engaged research project with interdisciplinary healthcare team members, and also recognize the challenges in this type of research.
Identify the rationale regarding the theoretical lenses of Erikson’s Theory of Psychosocial Development, Piaget’s stages of Cognitive Development, and Knowles’ Adult Learning Theory used for this study.
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Suggested Domain: Professional Responsibility
Priti Desai
PhD, MPH, CCLS
East Carolina University
Dr. Priti Desai PhD, MPH, CCLS, is an associate professor at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. In addition to teaching her formal academic courses at ECU, Priti has conducted more than 80 child life related presentations and workshops around the world, working as a volunteer leader and educator with organizations including Operation Smile, the K.G. Patel Children's Hospital and CanKids- KidsCan, in India, Kuwait Association for Children in Hospitals, and other organizations. For the ACLP, Priti served as Treasurer of the CLC Board of Directors from 2001 to 2003, and chair of the Diversity Committee from 1997 to 2001. Over the years, she has also served as a member of the Conference Planning Committee, Partnership Committee, Practice Analysis Task Force, Child Life Bill of Rights Task Force, Academic Task Force, International Task Force, and the Research and Scholarship Committee. Priti’s published work includes research and review articles that have appeared in journals based in the U.S. and India, and she has co-authored two chapters appearing in The Handbook of Child Life (2018, 2009). Priti has received ACLP’s Distinguished Service Award in May 2013.
Paige Lockamon Whitcomb
MS, CCLS
Children's Hospital of Richmond
Paige Whitcomb is a Certified Child Life Specialist and has been practicing as a CCLS since 2018. She received her Bachelors degree in English and Social and Economic Justice from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received her Masters degree from East Carolina University in Human Development and Family Science with a Child Life Emphasis. Paige currently works at VCU Health - The Children's Hospital of Richmond as the Float CCLS providing coverage to various units including Inpatient, Bone Marrow Transplant, Burn, and the Pediatric Emergency Room.
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