Paediatric emergency: creation of an independent nurse practitioner consultation
Rey-Bellet Gasser, C.; Gehri, M.; Yersin, C.
Revue Medicale Suisse 11(456-457): 120-121
2015
ISSN/ISBN: 1660-9379 PMID: 25799666 Document Number: 679987
Consultations in the Paediatric Emergency Department (PED) continue to climb regularly. Emergency Nurse Practitioner consultations have long been created in the English speaking countries. Since January 2013, an indepen- dent nurse consultation, under delegated medical responsibility, exists in the multidisciplinary PED of the Children's Hospital of Lausanne. The mean consultation time is the same as the medical consultation and the overall waiting time hasn't decreased yet. But a well definite working frame, a systematic approach, as well as the continual medical supervision possibility, make it a safe, efficient and appreciated consultation, by both patients and professionals.