nurse liaison services

Partnerships are customized to be flexible and affordable, providing a consistent pediatric presence to meet your organization’s needs and equipping your team to provide top notch pediatric care in your community.

Services include:

• Onsite embedded nurse liaisons; level of support determined by partner
• Hands on learning for your staff through Partners in Practice
• Clinical support
  • Inpatient pediatric service support, optimizing the patient/family experience
    • Pediatric polices, standards of care, clinical practice guidelines, order sets
    • Pediatric performance improvement and audit process/tools
    • Pediatric data for community health assessment plans
  • 24/7 pediatric pharmacy consultation support
    • Includes access to consultation with pediatric pharmacist as well as the Dayton Children’s formulary
  • Support for ancillary services
  • Recommendations for pediatric supplies and equipment
  • Expert assistance in developing evidence based pediatric policies and standards of care
  • Development of pediatric specific performance improvement and developing pediatric audit processes
  • Pediatric environment of care and safety recommendations
• Tools and materials
  • Access to pediatric materials and experts for clinical service support including;
  • Distraction kit instruction
• Education
  • Pediatric courses
  • Competencies, skills training and mock codes
  • Emergency response
  • Pediatric resource guides/tools for staff including
  • Opportunity to have Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) course provided on site
• Co-Branding
  • Opportunity to collaborate on pediatric health and safety community outreach initiatives and co-brand events
  • Joint marketing effort

If you would like to hear more about how a partnership can benefit your organization, contact Sarah Begley, MSN, RN, CPN or the community nurse liaisons.

If you have been instructed to complete a “partners in practice” packet, please review the documents listed and return the documents to be completed.   We will be working with you and your supervisor to set up this experience.  

• Partners in Practice application packet
  • Information to read by participant
    • Dress code policy
    • Code of conduct
    • Confidentiality
    • Safety packet
  • Packet to be completed and returned can be securely faxed to (937-641-6114)
    • Checklist
    • Profile
    • Health and Liability
    • Compliance and Confidentiality statement
    • Disclosure of convictions
    • Safety test
    • Proof or CPR
    • Current Driver License  or state ID

*Courses available through the Nurse Liaisons

• Basic Care of the Pediatric Patient
• Basic Care of the Pediatric Patient in the ED
• The Mechanisms and Science of Pediatric Decline
• Pediatric Refresher for the adult care giver
• The Pediatric Surgery Patient

*Competency skill stations

• Nursing
  • Suctioning
  • Pediatric PIV
  • Pediatric Medication Administration
  • Pediatric Assessment/ Monitoring
  • Pediatric pain assessment  
• Assistive staff/ new nurses
  • Vital Signs
  • Weights/ Measures
  • Distraction
  • Positions of comfort

*Emergency Response

• Mock codes
• Review of Pediatric emergency cart
• PALS courses