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Volume 4
Journal of Pediatric Care
ISSN: 2471-805X
Page 36
JOINT EVENT
Pediatric Critical Care 2018 &
World Pediatrics 2018
October 18- 20 , 2018
October 18- 20, 2018 Warsaw, Poland
&
6
th
International Conference on
25
th
World Pediatrics Conference
Pediatric Critical Care and Emergency Medicine
The need for critical care education for emergency nurses
Alex Van Lierde
Critbox, United Arab Emirates
O
ver recent years’ emergency departments become more crowded this poses an emerging threat to patient safety and could
have a significant impact on the critically ill. Emergency departments see older, sicker and more critical patients than ever
before. A lack of available critical care beds, and the need of proper discharge planning results in critically ill patients boarded
in the emergency department. They often occupy the much-needed trauma rooms especially when critically ill or intubated.
If a critically ill patient ends up intubated in the emergency department’s trauma room the primary nurse better be no junior.
But, due to the well-known nursing shortage and a lack of a formal progressive orientation packages, junior nurses often end
up taking care of critically ill and intubated patients. This might result in a life-threatening situation. During my time served as
a nursing manager of a trauma center in the Middle East I recognized the need for critical care education on a daily basis and
therefore was determined to improve critical care nursing skills within my department. As the need for critical care education
for emergency nurses / transport nurses in the Middle East is high I decided to found CritBox, a startup that is on the way to
generate what is much needed, Critical Care education for nurses. Let me take you on a journey that seemed impossible.
Alex.van.lierde@gmail.comJ Pediatr Care 2018, Volume 4
DOI: 10.21767/2471-805X-C4-015