Rapid Access Guide for Pediatric Emergencies : Providing Expert Nursing Care

• Concise, pocket-sized, immediate-access format
• Useful for emergency, urgent care, clinic, school, detention center, summer camp settings, and others
• Utilizes a systematic evidence-based approach for the triage, assessment, and identification of appropriate interventions for a variety of clinical presentations
• Describes nursing pearls and critical concepts of pediatric emergency care
• Addresses typical vs. atypical patient presentations
• Provides step-by-step information for pediatric procedures
• Addresses anatomic and physiologic age-specific considerations applicable to each disease pathology or injury
• Icons are used throughout the book to quickly direct the user to specific content areas
• Contains blank note pages for customization

Deb Jeffries, MSN-Ed., RN, CEN, CPEN, TCRN is a registered nurse with over three decades of experience in critical care and emergency nursing and has dedicated much of her career toward clinical education in the acute care emergency setting. Ms. Jeffries is a TNCC and ENPC course director and an ACLS, PALS, and BLS instructor.

Lynn Sayre Visser, MSN, RN, PHN, CEN, CPEN, FAEN has devoted her 28 year career to emergency nursing, triage education, mentoring others, and writing about topics that impact nursing. Her career has been complemented by experience in prehospital care, ICUs, post-anesthesia care units, and as an organ procurement coordinator. Her passion for quality patient care led her to play instrumental roles in the implementation of a provider in triage, rapid triage assessment, and immediate bedding processes along with formalized triage education in multiple facilities. She is a change-agent and philanthropist and has been published in a variety of arenas. She is the co-author of Fast Facts for the Triage Nurse: An Orientation and Care Guide, Essentials for the Triage Nurse, Rapid Access Guide for Triage and Emergency Nurses, and Rapid Access Guide for Pediatric Emergency Nursing. Her work has been recognized with two American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year awards, the 2019 Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) Media Award, the 2021 ENA Team Award, as well as the 2019 Sigma Theta Tau Edith Moore Copeland Founders Award for excellence in creativity. She holds a Master of Science Degree in Nursing with an emphasis in education and a double Bachelor of Science degree in nursing and exercise physiology.